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Madoff son found dead in NYC in apparent suicide
AP/yahoo ^ | December 11th 2010 | AP/COLLEEN LONG

Posted on 12/11/2010 10:09:12 AM PST by ColdOne

NEW YORK – The eldest son of disgraced financier Bernard Madoff hanged himself by a dog leash in his apartment Saturday after two years of "unrelenting pressure

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To: nuconvert

The son’s worked for the market making side or legit side of the family business. This is where Madoff started. They probably could have just stayed in that business and made a decent living.

The son’s had to have been sophisticated enough to realize that Bernie’s claimed large and consistent returns in the separate “money management” business were essetially impossible.

Sad for the children. Many of the investors and feeders in Madoff’s scam were unpleasant people. Irving Piccard, the trustee, is going after Sonja Kohn in Austria hard. She was his major connection in Europe.

Bernie hurt a lot of people. His feeders like Sonja Kohn, Shapiro, Jaffee and the Noel family in CT need for hurtin.

2 feeders are dead including Picower who may have been whacked.


21 posted on 12/11/2010 12:02:09 PM PST by Frantzie
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To: nuconvert
(gotta wonder about the symbolism using a dog leash)

Like he couldn't afford a rope, or a gentle bottle of pills and a private spot to go to, or a hot air balloon, rather than hang himself where his young child could see him?

22 posted on 12/11/2010 12:03:59 PM PST by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (Grammar police off-duty. But I saw what you did.)
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To: ColdOne
In February, Mark Madoff's wife petitioned a court to change her last name and the last names of their two children, saying her family had gotten threats...

But he hanged himself with a dog leash in a loft apartment, when he could have fallen out a window....

23 posted on 12/11/2010 12:16:36 PM PST by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (Grammar police off-duty. But I saw what you did.)
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To: ColdOne

I’m sad for the little boy who lost his Daddy.

The worst thing in the world is to outlive your child, and this worst feeling in the world is being felt this second in prison by a Bernie Madoff. Even worse is that he knows he caused his son’s death. Kinda makes me smile.


24 posted on 12/11/2010 12:20:16 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: Yaelle
The worst thing in the world is to outlive your child, and this worst feeling in the world is being felt this second in prison by a Bernie Madoff.

I dunno, I'd pictured Bernie Madoff as having a George Soros type of conscience.

25 posted on 12/11/2010 12:31:01 PM PST by COBOL2Java (Obama is the least qualified guy in whatever room he walks into.)
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To: ColdOne
...two years of unrelenting pressure from false accusations and innuendo."

Life is a real killer isn't it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhlWddAXSRA

26 posted on 12/11/2010 12:32:37 PM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: MsLady

” Look what your steeling has done.”

I did not know he was a steel man!;)


27 posted on 12/11/2010 12:33:26 PM PST by Frank_2001
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To: optiguy

Oh my God, that is so soad. that poor child..prayers out to him and the mother...just so sad.


28 posted on 12/11/2010 12:48:50 PM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie
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To: Joe 6-pack
hanged himself by a dog leash in his apartment ping
29 posted on 12/11/2010 12:51:28 PM PST by ColdOne
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To: Frank_2001

Haha, very funny.


30 posted on 12/11/2010 12:53:18 PM PST by MsLady (If you died tonight, where would you go? Salvation, don't leave earth without it!)
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To: ColdOne

Perhaps this was an assisted suicide.


31 posted on 12/11/2010 1:19:13 PM PST by ponygirl
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To: Yaelle
"The worst thing in the world is to outlive your child"

I don't recommend it. But someone has to hang around and celebrate all that they were and remember ...

32 posted on 12/11/2010 1:29:02 PM PST by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast

His child was in bed, and just before he offed himself he sent a text to his wife telling her to check on the boy, she was in Florida I believe. She immediately called her father who went over and found him dead, the little boy was sleeping in his bedroom and didn’t know what happened.


33 posted on 12/11/2010 1:35:14 PM PST by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: Abathar
"His child was in bed, and just before he offed himself he sent a text to his wife telling her to check on the boy, she was in Florida I believe."

Or, more accurately, a text from his phone to his wife's phone said to check on the boy.

How easily we assume...

34 posted on 12/11/2010 1:41:45 PM PST by GourmetDan (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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To: GourmetDan

I like a good conspiracy theory myself, but this one just feels like a guy who hoped that the Hindus, Buddhists or Sikhs are right and he gets another chance.


35 posted on 12/11/2010 1:50:17 PM PST by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: Abathar

Just commenting on how easily we assume certain things that we really don’t know.

I believe he was a Jew.

I don’t remember ‘another chance’ being part of their culture.


36 posted on 12/11/2010 1:52:32 PM PST by GourmetDan (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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To: GourmetDan

Nope, that’s why I used the word hoped, he knew he was committing a mortal sin doing it otherwise.


37 posted on 12/11/2010 2:05:28 PM PST by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: Abathar

That might mean only that the hit man doesn’t do two for the price of one...and the client didn’t want a 2-yr-old done.

As for the email, “write it or I’ll have to wake the baby.”


38 posted on 12/11/2010 2:11:53 PM PST by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (Grammar police off-duty. But I saw what you did.)
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To: GourmetDan

Most folks know the reference here is to phone texting, not a textbook. Another spin-off of our tech society.


39 posted on 12/11/2010 2:22:44 PM PST by Rennes Templar (Figures don't lie, but liars can figure.)
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To: ColdOne

Dear God this family has been though Hell. Yes he was criminal and ruined many lives but to lose a child before you pass away is the WORST.


40 posted on 12/11/2010 2:27:02 PM PST by napscoordinator
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