Ruth Madoff Visits Bernie In The Clink

Photograph of Ruth Madoff leaving the Metropolitan Correctional Center (with bodyguards) by Mary Altaffer/AP

With two tall bodyguards, Ruth Madoff visited her disgraced financier husband Bernard at the Metropolitan Correctional Center. This was her first visit there since he pleaded guilty on March 12.

The Daily News has an account of the scene outside the lock-up: "Ruth Madoff dropped in to the lockup for a tete-á-tete with her beloved Bernie on Monday, emerging as silent as the Sphinx about her first visit behind bars.... [She] looked calm and relaxed and even let slip a fleeting smile at the swarm of journalists buzzing around her. Still, as questions such as 'Was he contrite?' and 'Are you going to turn your money over to the feds?' flew at her, Ruth played deaf."

However, accusations and insinuations that Ruth Madoff was intimately involved with her husband's Ponzi scheme continue to roll in. Yesterday, Lucinda Franks wrote in The Daily Beast that a Palm Beach socialite told her, "Everyone down here thinks she was involved in the Ponzi scheme" before launching into a story of how Ruth lined up an investor for Madoff. In the April Vanity Fair, it was implied that Ruth is smarter than her husband: "While Bernie spent his freshman year at the University of Alabama—at that time, some say, an easier entrance portal for students who couldn’t get accepted into eastern colleges—Ruth passed the entrance requirements for Queens College."

Franks told the CBS Early Show that while one of Madoff's victims includes his own sister, "I don't think Ruth's worries are about money right now. Her husband salted away money all over the world in her name, and this is what investigators are trying to get back now." One less salt mine: Madoff's $7 million yacht was seized by French authorities (this is a different boat from the two seized in Florida).

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By Jen Chung in News on April 7, 2009 5:26 PM

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Clarice City

Checking out your future digs, Ruthie?

inoyourider

Lock the bitch up too.

Past Taliban

The important thing is that they seized Bernie's TESTICLES while he was still in possesion of them, tiny & shriveled as they may be.

Past Taliban

I hope to see a pic of Laura Bush one day soon visiting HER hubby in Federal detention.

Let us pray. (all stand)

CR

I wonder if her mood or behavior will change now that she's actually seen him in jail. It's part of the "shit just got real" syndrome maybe... knowhaddahmean?

Snoopy

Perhaps in certain ways Bernie might be happier without her around nagging him all the time. Saying things like, "Well the Bergman's just bought a 300 foot yacht and what do we have? You call this house in Palm Beach big? Did you know that Stella just got a ring the size of a ...? And Irving wasn't ashamed to pay full price for it."

Snoopy

With Bernie in jail I guess she wont be throwing her usual Birkat Hachama bash.

CR

Believe me, she already thinks *she's* the Sun, the Moon, and the Stars...

A nice little pre-pesach visit this was. I wonder which son Bernie is... I'm going with "Wicked".

NannyState

Ruth should have stolen a shopping cart after her little visit to Fairway, you know, to push what's left of her worthless existence around in.

Snoopy

The body guard on the right should really consider shopping at a store other than Walmart for his suits. That shirt collar and those jacket buttons should get paid overtime for the job they are doing.

felixthecat2

LOL, I hope it wasn't conjugal visit, not even Bernie deserves such cruel and usual punishment.

Snoopy

Wouldn't you think they would have enough money to fix the sidewalks around the jail? At least fill in the deep holes.

nyrangers

please proofread your postings. it wastes my time trying to figure out your lazy mistakes. thanks.

Ace

Wasting your time? How about the time I spent reading your comment? There are more typos in your 16 word comment than there are in the entire article.