Exclusive | Madoff trustee tells NYC power couple to divvy up swanky Manhattan condo to compensate fraudster's victims

The hard-charging trustee of Bernie Madoff’s estate is pushing a New York City power couple to break up their super-sized Manhattan apartment — and sell two-thirds of its square footage to compensate the late Ponzi schemer’s victims, The Post has learned.

Irving Picard — the attorney who has clawed back nearly $15 billion for Madoff customers burned in the fund’s 2008 collapse — is going to unusual lengths to enforce an April 2022 court ruling that found New York lawyer Malcolm Sage was a rare “net winner” in the Madoff mess.

Sage and his wife Lynne Florio — a cosmetics mogul who formerly was a top executive at skincare brand La Prairie — reaped $16.9 million in profits from the ill-fated fund, according to documents filed in New York state Supreme Court. 6

Picard, however, convinc