Assets Frozen For Brother Of Madoff.

After months in the background, Peter B. Madoff is suddenly being pulled into the spotlight focused on his older brother, Bernard L. Madoff, who has confessed to running a global Ponzi scheme. One problem became public on Wednesday, when a Nassau County judge imposed a temporary freeze on Peter Madoff's assets in response to a lawsuit by the beneficiary of a trust fund that was lost in the scheme. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]