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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!(Dec. 11) – Exactly two years after his father's arrest, the eldest son of convicted Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff was found dead this morning, his body hanging from a dog leash in his living room as his own young son slept in the next room, according to reports. Mark Madoff, 46, was under investigation about his possible involvement in his father's multi-billion dollar fraud, but had never faced any criminal charges. Security Traders Association of New York / AP Mark Madoff, seen in this undated photograph, killed himself on the second anniversary of his father's arrest. "Mark Madoff ...
Champion swindler Bernie Madoff was sentenced today to what amounts to life in prison. And amid the ongoing stories about Madoff, I see the recurring questions: How could so many smart people have allowed themselves to be swindled? And how could he have done it to people with whom he seemingly had such strong ties of culture and faith? As Marie Brenner put it earlier this year in Vanity Fair: "What kind of Jew victimizes Elie Wiesel?" ...
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