Bernie Madoff's employees 'stored faked trading data in fridge' By Daily Mail Reporters State's witness: Frank DiPascali, Bernie Madoff's former right-hand man, is testifying against his former co-workers Bernie Madoff's employees faked trading dating for auditors - then stored the freshly-printed reports in the refrigerator and kicked them around a conference room so they would look warn and used, a star witness has testified. Frank DiPascali, the jailed ponzi schemer's right-hand-man, explained Monday the elaborate steps that Madoff's employees allegedly took to fool auditors and regulators as part of his testimony against five former employees. He says that they knew exactly what was going on at Madoff's firm while he was bilking investors out of $17billion. Madoff pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 125 years in prison. But, account managers Annette Bongiorno, 65, and Joanne Crupi, 52; operations director Daniel Bonventre, 66; and computer programmers Jerome O'Hara, 50, and George Perez, 47, contend that they did not know what Madoff was up to and they they aren't guilty of participating in the ponzi scheme, according to Newsday. Mr DiPascali, who started working for Madoff in 1975, pleaded guilty after Madoff's scams were revealed in 2009. He turned state's witness in the hopes of reducing his prison sentence, which could put him behind bars for the rest of his life, along with his former boss. DiPascali implicated five of his former employees who have pleaded not guilty to knowingly participating in Madoff's ponzi scheme Mr DiPascali implicated all of his former co-workers on his first day of testimony, according to Newsday. He said Bongiorno frequently used day-old stock prices from the Wall Street Journal to forge earnings reports for clients. When auditors or regulators came in to check the books, Mr DiPasci said, the staff would work harder. When the auditors asked to look at a specific set of records, employees would forge them on the fly and print them out fresh. Madoff is serving life in prison for orchestrating a $17billion ponzi scheme that bilked untold thousands of investors They wouldn't hand over the books, though, until they had been properly prepared - the auditors wouldn't become suspicious that they were fakes, Mr DiPascali testified. He recalled walking into a room in search of book of trading data only to find his co-workers 'tossing it around like a medicine ball' and laughing. 'They explained to me that the document should look used, and I should not bring a hot, warm piece of paper up to an auditor,' he testified. They had put it in the refrigerator.