France Will Battle US for Madoff Chateau

A legal tug-of-war is getting underway over the Madoffs' Riviera chateau, reports the New York Post. Bernard and Ruth Madoff's $1 million French pad is among the assets US federal prosecutors want the couple to forfeit to help reimburse scammed investors, but French authorities—who have opened a criminal inquiry into French losses in Madoff's Ponzi scheme—are also preparing to seize the mansion. (More French Riviera stories.)