Bernie Madoff's son, Mark, found dead
NEW YORK CITY : Bernard Madoff’s son Mark was found dead in his SoHo
apartment this morning, police sources said.
Officers were called to 158 Mercer Street around 7:30 a.m. to respond to a
report that Mark Madoff was hanging in his apartment.
The younger Madoff, 46, was found by his father-in-law. With him in the
apartment was his 2-year-old child, said sources.
Police sources said Madoff was hanging from a dog collar attached to a pipe
in the apartment ceiling.
Mark Madoff had recently traded e-mails with his wife, Stephanie, who is
now in Florida with the couple’s 4-year-old child, sources told The Post.
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Bernard Madoff with his wife Ruth and son Mark in 2001.
Stephanie Madoff, worried, sent her father-in-law to the family’s
apartment, where he made the gruesome discovery, said police sources.
The content of the e-mails is unknown, and no note was found with his body,
said police sources.
Today is the two-year anniversary of Bernard Madoff’s arrest. He’s now
serving a 150-year prison sentence over his $65 billion Ponzi scheme.
Mark Madoff was "unalterably bitter" over his father’s decades-long
deception, a spokesman told the_ Wall Street Journal _
(http://www.nypost.com/t/Wall_Street_Journal) recently.
Mark Madoff and his brother, Andrew, were sued this week by Irving Picard,
the court-appointed trustee recovering assets for the Bernard Madoff’s
victims.
The two brothers were brokers in their father’s firm, and have said
repeatedly they didn’t know of their father’s crimes
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