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“I don’t know whose idea it was, but we decided to kill ourselves because it was so horrendous what was happening.” — RUTH MADOFF, telling 60 Minutes‘ Morley Safer that she and her husband, convicted Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff, attempted suicide in an “impulsive” response to hate mail and harassment (via CBS)
If this is a ploy to get our attention (and it obviously is), mission accomplished.
An auction of Bernie Madoff’s household goods, ranging from paintings to prescription eyeglasses, brought in about $400,000. Among the items were 14 pairs of boxers that sold for $200. Which leaves one haunting question: Would his briefs have gone for even more?
With a 150-year sentence behind bars for a $65 billion Ponzi scheme, Bernie Madoff doesn’t have too much to look forward to.
When you’re already in prison for life, why not try to take others to task?
“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 [...]
So says a new profile from New York that digs into disgraced financier Bernie Madoff’s life in prison.
