and get out there and apologize. bill: especially when it s caught on national tv. martha: yeah, i m appalled. it s appalling. they ve been under a lot of pressure lately. maybe that s where that came from, right? let s move on, shall we? don t think about that. some more later. hedge funds investors taking on a new risk, betting on the lawsuits that are generated by the victims of convicted ponzi schemer bernie madoff, investors offering the bankruptcy victims a cut if their victims do not want to wait for the federal bankruptcy court to decide their cases. rick leonel up that is live to explain this new trend. how does this work for those who were left out in the cold and broke, many of them, by bernie madoff? reporter: absolutely martha. the madoff case, we ll explain this in a second, it s the latest trend that s been building for years, exactly, investing in lawsuits or loaning money to plaintiffs so they can afford to take cases to court. pursuing a case like the madoff swi