Bernie Madoff Won't Attend Son's Funeral
Posted on Dec 13, 2010 @ 01:55PM
Bernie Madoff, the convicted felon who fleeced $60 billion from investors in an elaborate Ponzi scheme, won't attend the
funeral of his son, Mark, who committed suicide this weekend, RadarOnline.com has learned.
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"He will not be attending the funeral out of consideration for his daughter-n-law's and grandchildren's privacy," his lawyer, Ira Lee Sorkin, told RadarOnline.com
"He will be conducting a private service on his own, where he is presently incarcerated."
Madoff is serving a 150-year sentence in a federal prison in North Carolina after pleading guilty in March 2009 to carrying out a decades-long fraud.
Sorkin would not comment when asked whether Madoff requested permission to be temporary released to attend funeral services.
According to a New York Post report Bernie's wife, Ruth, believes her son Mark "would not have died if it weren't for what [Bernie] had done," a friend said.
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46-year-old Mark hanged himself Saturday with a dog leash in his New York City loft as his 2-year-old son slept in the next room.
His suicide came on the second anniversary of his father's arrest in connection with a massive billion-dollar Ponzi scheme.
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Nov 01, 2011 @ 19:00
Dec 12, 2010 @ 03:30
Ruth is just as guilty as Bernie. And Mark and Andrew and Peter....... Read The Madoff Chronicles. Very enlightening.
Posted Mon, 12/13/2010 - 10:07pm
Nobody wants him at the funeral. His family has nothing to do w/him. Even if he could go, he'ld probably get killed. He's safer in prison. As for Ruth's comment, of course the son killed himself cuz of what this idiot did.
Posted Mon, 12/13/2010 - 9:48pm
He acts like it was his decision to make.
Posted Mon, 12/13/2010 - 9:24pm
The coward knows theres a hit on him is why. Has nothing to do with his sons family.
Posted Mon, 12/13/2010 - 7:48pm