>From today's NY Times:
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>On Oct. 7, five former employees of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities are scheduled to stand trial in Federal District Court in Manhattan on charges they aided the fraud.
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>Each of the five employees – Daniel Bonventre, Annette Bongiorno, Joann Crupi, Jerome O’Hara and George Perez — worked at the firm for more than 15 years in a variety of low-level roles, but ones that the government
> said were key to perpetrating Mr. Madoff’s long-running scheme. Ms. Bongiorno, for example, was Mr. Madoff’s longtime secretary. Mr. O’Hara and Mr. Perez were computer programmers who produced the firm’s account statements

Seems like they should be held accountable - I mean if you're the programmer and you've written something that is without a doubt producing false and totally made-up account statements - well no excuse for doing that - you've just became part of the fraud.