His lawyer, David Alpern, says Ehrlich objected to the way he was asked to leave the group.

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Mr. DAVID ALPERN (Lawyer for David Ehrlich): To fire him without notice and without any opportunity to ameliorate the problems that apparently existed.

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While the audit, by Alpern Rosenthal, found the non-profit to be relatively healthy, a slew of practices were red-flagged, some potentially opening the organization to lawsuits.

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She has been on several nonprofit boards and is now on the boards of Arts Engine, Grove With Me, and the Alpern Family Foundation.

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It's a charge his attorney, David Alpern, denies.

NPR: Audubon String Quartet Lawsuit Mixes Music, Business

At the time of his sister's divorce, Picower was working as a manager at an accountancy, while Bienes and his partner, Frank Avellino, had taken over Alpern's accounting firm and helped transform it into an early Madoff feeder fund.

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It's unclear how that relationship started, but until the early 1970s Picower's older sister, Emily, was married to Michael Bienes, who also grew up in Long Beach and worked in the 1960s as an accountant for Saul Alpern, Madoff's father-in-law.

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Mr. ALPERN: This is a tragedy.

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