conflict of interests

A judge postponed a hearing that should be held on Wednesday over a potential conflict of interest involving Ira Sorkin, a lawyer of accused swindler Bernard Madoff, reports Reuters. No new date was set for the hearing and no reasons were given though both U.S. prosecutors and Sorkin consented to it. The hearing was called at the request of U.S. prosecutors over a potential conflict of interest for Sorkin in his representation of two accountants in a 1992 case brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.