Bernard Madoff and his cronies helped their favorite investors once a year with a practice they called “schtupping,” a witness said Thursday in the Ponzi scheme trial of five former Madoff employees.

Bernie Madoff's codeword for his fraudulent end-of-year business transactions was "schtupping," a Yiddish term for the act of sex, according to his former underling Frank DiPascali. DiPascali, a ...