Ruth Madoff Keeps Visiting Bernie

ABC News caught up Ruth Madoff, wife of multi-billion Ponzi-scheming investment guru Bernard Madoff, while she leaving the Metropolitan Correctional Center, where her husband is being held. When asked "if she had anything to say to the victims of her husband's scam or whether she played a role in it," she simply said, "I have no response to you." Apparently Ruth Madoff has been telling people that she's lonely and feels shunned ever since the scandal erupted, but a lawyer representing victims of the scam said, "Why would you have sympathy for his wife in any of these circumstances? She was one of the largest beneficiaries of the fraud. She enjoyed a very rich lifestyle that practically everyone would love to emulate and it was paid for by someone else." ABC News also likes to mention how Madoff was very generous with his employees—"Madoff sent $2.2 million so that one staffer, now under criminal investigation, could buy a New Jersey beach house. Frank DiPascali, Madoff's right hand man, was paid nearly $3 million a year. DiPascali's boat captain was also on the Madoff payroll."

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By Jen Chung in News on May 20, 2009 2:44 PM

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Mr Mel

I believe Berrnie is/has been blackmailed by everyone who knew what was going on. He caved before the scandal. Too many people are surfacing that had gotten huge paydays. I can't imagine that he was that generous.

Rocknrope

Three million dollars a year to basically run a printing press. Nice gig!

db

Ruthie baby!

Call me *wink*

and bring your purse

felixthecat2

damn, I didn't know Frank was paid over 3 million a year. He was our account manager and he really didn't provide such great services. Madoff really fucked us up good. No wonder he is smiling like the cat that ate the canary.

Steven

Let her keep buying designer clothes made in china.

NannyState

"Madame, your cellblock awaits"

PTG in nyc

Gee, why would ripping off the community that you pretend to be a generous and honest member of be worthy of getting shunned for? (Not to mention all of those outside of her community that were also ripped off).

I hear there's extra room in Bernie's cell if she's that lonely; it kinda smells like she belongs there anyway. Maybe downsizing to a normal apartment will make her feel less lonely.

Boohoo, I'm gonna go make a donation to Bernie's legal defense fund because I feel so badly.

felixthecat2

Frank, I remember him quite well. he actually would reviewed the trades of the day before sending them over. Frank had to know, no doubt. LOCk HIM UP