RENEE MONTAGNE, Host: NPR's business news starts with more charges in the Madoff scandal.</s>RENEE MONTAGNE, Host: NPR's Jim Zarroli has more.</s>JIM ZARROLI: Jim Zarroli, NPR News, New York.
U.S. officials have filed civil charges against two of the so-called feeder funds that helped Bernard Madoff find investors. They say the firms knew — or should have known — that Madoff was operating a giant Ponzi scheme.