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Chicago-based firm Ribbeck Law Chartered has recently filed a petition to review records of Malaysian Airline System Bhd and Boeing Co about the missing plane on behalf of the estate of one of the plane's passengers, Businessweek said.

Irving Picard said in a statement that victims of Bernard Madoff's $17.5 billion Ponzi scheme will expect additional payments totaling $349 million as soon as the US Bankruptcy Court in New York approves the distribution.

The jury at a Chicago federal court said former Sentinel Management Group Inc chief executive Eric Bloom was guilty of misleading his clients with a fraud scheme partly because he runs the firm, Bloomberg said.