Police gather outside Mark Madoff's apartment where he was found dead this morning in New York, December 11, 2010. Mark Madoff, the elder son of convicted swindler Bernard Madoff, was found hanged in his New York City apartment in an apparent suicide, police and his lawyer said on Saturday. REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi
“Mark was an innocent victim of his father’s monstrous crime who succumbed to two years of unrelenting pressure from false accusations and innuendo.”
–MARTIN FLUMENBAUM, Mark Madoff’s lawyer, in a statement about his client. Madoff was the son of Bernie Madoff and his body was found Saturday morning in his New York apartment after he apparently hanged himself. (via the Los Angeles Times)