A pension fund that made millions from Bernie Madoff before he was exposed tried to claim that it could have earned even more if its trustees had shared their suspicions about the Ponzi schemer.

But the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit decisively rejected that claim on Thursday, saying the fund, able to keep some $33 million paid out by Madoff with the cash of other duped investors, should count itself lucky.

Judge Jacobs

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