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Prosecutors have filed a motion indicating that Bernard Madoff may be ready to plead guilty to a sweeping financial fraud.

The avalanche of legal and personal problems tumbling onto a brazen investor grew with the addition of federal charges that he faked a distress call and crashed his plane in an attempt to foil authorities.

Young, handsome, confident, smooth talking. That's how some commercial pilots described financial planner Marcus Schrenker, the runaway pilot who authorities say bilked investors out of millions and tried to fake his death in a plane crash. "You could trust this guy. He was a pilot, and he understood us," one said.