Ruth Madoff Wants $13K Palm Beach Tax Rebate Check

2009_05_rmadoff.jpg Ruth Madoff may have signed a deal with the feds, giving up her homes and assets in exchange for $2.5 million, but does that mean she can keep a property tax rebate check for one of those homes? According to the Palm Beach Post, since the Madoffs' Palm Beach mansion was overvalued, the couple was issued a $13,800 rebate: "Ruth Madoff recently sent the uncashed refund check back to Palm Beach County Tax Collector Anne Gannon, with a letter dated Aug. 23 asking that it be reissued in her name alone." A Florida tax law expert, Richard Rampelli, surmised, "She wants to have unfettered access to the money, clearly." Hey, Metrocards are expensive! Her attorney claims that the money will go "where it is supposed to go" and points out she is "obliged to assist the government in recovering any covered assets," but Rampelli thinks she could have just given the check to the government to deal with. At any rate, the check will not be reissued in Ruth's name alone—Palm Beach County Tax Collector "said the law requires her to write rebate checks to whoever paid the original bill - and in this case, both Madoffs' names were on the original check."

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Why is this b1tch not on welfare yet?

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She's got a lot of chutzpah. I'll give her that...

Hey Ruth, you do realize that those taxes were paid with stolen money right? And that you don't get to keep that? Just be glad you got to keep the $2.5 million, more money than most people who don't steal will ever see in their lives.

$13,800 is probably what she owes her hairdreser.

How soon until she's doing granny pern?

She can have $10,000 for every inch of Bernie's dick she put in that mouth.

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