Zabel says Barbara is willing to settle for even more to avoid years of litigation.
"We are exploring all our legal alternatives, " said William Zabel, an attorney for Mr. Morrissey.
Zabel, Picower's lawyer and self-described friend for 22 years, says he has few details about Picower's life.
Countryman Daniele Bennati was second ahead of Germany's Erik Zabel, earning a six-second time bonus in the process.
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But McEwen seems to revel in his solo sprinting, catching onto the Telekom train of Erik Zabel and pouncing when the time is right.
Winning upset the established order of Erik Zabel, Robbie McEwen and Stuart O'Grady, who had been tipped to battle it out for the points prize.
His lawyer, William Zabel, didn't immediately return a phone message Tuesday.
He has come close twice before - including 2001 when he led the points race going into the final stage only to lose out to Zabel.
Erik Zabel has been named captain of cycling's Team Telekom for their first year without former Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich, now with Team Coast.
Once again the team will be doubling up in their glory bids, with German sprinter Erik Zabel aiming to win back his green jersey off Robbie McEwen.
Mr. Zabel said in the statement that Mr. Soros, 80, did have an "on-again, off-again and non-exclusive relationship" with Ms. Ferreyr, which lasted from about 2006 to 2010.
The team is not just about Zabel, Botero and Savoldelli and, in Americans Bobby Julich and Kevin Livingstone, they have two experienced riders capable of lasting the distance.
Zabel already has six successive green jerseys under his belt.
The usual stalwart of the green jersey, Erik Zabel, looks to have passed his peak, while O'Grady's countryman and the defending champion of the jersey, Robbie McEwen, has been struggling with injuries early this season.
But standing in the way of a settlement: federal prosecutors, who may want the Picower estate to cough up more, and Zabel's insistence that he get a permanent injunction on lawsuits from any Madoff victims.
That's the amount Zabel all but concedes Picard has the right to collect under New York State and federal bankruptcy law clawbacks, because it is what Picower took out in the six-year period prior to Picard's suit.
Central to Zabel's cause will be lead-out man Gian Matteo Fagnini, who has been picked for the Tour solely to help the German and cropped up half a kilometre before the finish of almost any sprint to help his man.
Quoted in the article were interviews by Mr. Stewart of the current U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York (Preet Bharara) and his deputy (Richard Zabel), the current head of enforcement at the SEC (Robert Khusami), and a former SEC Chairman (Harvey Pitt).
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