Madoff's Son May Have A Gun Permit

The Post reports that Andrew Madoff, the 43-year-old son of Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff, "applied for a license to keep a handgun in his swanky Upper East Side pad more than six months ago -- and his name appears on NYPD and state police lists of approved permit holders." Is he trying to keep up with those alleged Goldman Sachs employees who are packing heat these days?

The Post questions this decision, because Madoff got into an argument with a former employee of his father's firm and the two men ended up in an "entertaining" "bitch fight" on a Upper East Side street earlier this year. A Post source says, "I would think that if the license division knew about that, they would suspend his permit immediately"—because the NYPD "commonly gives them to those with clean records and no history of mental or substance problems"— but, hey, no one was arrested!

The NYPD claims Madoff's application wasn't approved, but the State Police, which gets its info from NYC, says that he appears on the "roster of license holders." Well, at any rate, he is being sued for taking $60 million in ill-gotten gains and can't find work, so this gun kerfuffle is the least of his worries.

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By Jen Chung in News on December 27, 2009 2:33 PM

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JacqueMehoff

what does the mayor say about this?

he did get into a fight, so what say him?

or is it only some people can get permits?

Rocknrope

Sorry Andy, the Mossad is well versed in gun disarm tactics.

gawkthis

why is this news? many people in NYC have legitimate gun permits. suddenly people with gun permits cannot get into a fight on the street? did anyone pull a gun during the fight? maybe the author's rationale is that getting into a street fight means Madoff is unstable and has a mental problem? if so, a substantial portion of the lower east side, brooklyn, the NYPD & NYFD are unstable and have mental problems. (ok, maybe that's not such a good analogy..)

inoyourider

Other than the fact that hopefully he will take it upon himself to swallow a bullet, how is this news?

potsmoker

he may have to put his two cats down if he goes to the clink, thats the reason martha stwearts daughter gave for her gun permit. to euthanize her poochies in case of another 9-11.