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convict 15 others involved in the scandal.
This overcounts by one. Contemporary Reuters and FBI summaries show there were 15 criminal defendants in the Madoff scandal total, including Frank DiPascali himself, so he did not help convict 15 others.
Full reasoning
The article says DiPascali helped prosecutors "convict 15 others involved in the scandal." That number is too high.
A Reuters case summary published when the last Madoff defendant was sentenced states that "the last of 15 criminal defendants in the Bernard Madoff scandal" was sentenced in August 2015, and that same summary explicitly includes Frank DiPascali among those 15 defendants. A separate Reuters report likewise says Irwin Lipkin was "the last of 15 people who either pleaded guilty or were convicted at trial in connection with the fraud." If DiPascali was one of those 15 people, then the number of other people was 14, not 15.
The FBI's retrospective history of the case points the same way: after DiPascali cooperated, investigators identified more subjects and "14 were ultimately charged." That also contradicts the article's claim that he helped convict 15 others.
So while DiPascali did help prosecutors convict or obtain guilty pleas from numerous co-conspirators, the documented total of other criminal defendants was 14, not 15.
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- Madoff case draws to a close
The last of 15 criminal defendants in the Bernard Madoff scandal ... Frank DiPascali ... Pleaded guilty ... Cooperated with prosecutors and testified against Madoff employees.
- With final defendant, Madoff criminal case comes to an end
Lipkin is the last of 15 people who either pleaded guilty or were convicted at trial in connection with the fraud ... Even his deputy, Frank DiPascali ... testified...
- Bernie Madoff Case
Dozens of subjects were identified, and 14 were ultimately charged. Several of the 14 pleaded guilty or cooperated with the government.