Bernie Madoff is now about three years into his 150-year prison sentence, and despite pleading guilty to a $65 billion Ponzi scheme, he’s apparently trying to clear his name.
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In a recent interview with “60 Minutes,” Bernie Madoff’s wife, Ruth Madoff, claims that she and her husband — the man who orchestrated the largest Ponzi scheme in U.S. history — tried to commit suicide by taking sleeping pills. In the report, the Madoffs’ son, Andrew, supports Ruth Madoff’s statements.
He’s the man responsible for killing “trust,” and Palm Beach County was one of his many victims. That’s what Diana Henriques, a senior financial writer for the New York Times, says about Bernie Madoff in her new book, The Wizard of Lies.