Lawyer Sorkin attracts death threats, praise

Lawyer Ira Lee Sorkin received death threats for defending one of America's most vilified people, accused swindler Bernard Madoff.

But he also wins praise from colleagues in the white-collar litigation world for keeping Madoff out of jail, so far.

Known as "Ike", the gregarious, bespectacled 65-year-old with a shock of short white hair has other clients in cases stemming from the financial markets' meltdown. But Madoff is the biggest purported fraud in Wall Street history.