NEW YORK — Ruth Madoff — memorably christened "The Loneliest Woman in New York” in a recent New York Times headline — finally spoke out after her notorious husband got a 150-year sentence that probably makes certain she’ll never see him again outside of prison.
"I am breaking my silence now, because my reluctance to speak has been interpreted as indifference or lack of sympathy for the victims of my husband Bernie’s crime, which is exactly the opposite of the truth,” Madoff said in a statement issued through her lawyer.
Ruth Madoff, 68, hasn’t been charged with a crime. But a judge’s order has stripped her of $80 million in assets including a penthouse apartment where she still lives. That’s left her with $2.5 million that couldn’t be linked to the fraud.
Ruth Madoff, though not at the courthouse, later expressed her feelings.
"I am embarrassed and ashamed,” she said. "Like everyone else, I feel betrayed and confused. The man who committed this horrible fraud is not the man whom I have known for all these years.”
by the associated press
"I am breaking my silence now, because my reluctance to speak has been interpreted as indifference or lack of sympathy for the victims of my husband Bernie’s crime, which is exactly the opposite of the truth,” Madoff said in a statement issued through her lawyer.
Ruth Madoff, 68, hasn’t been charged with a crime. But a judge’s order has stripped her of $80 million in assets including a penthouse apartment where she still lives. That’s left her with $2.5 million that couldn’t be linked to the fraud.
Ruth Madoff, though not at the courthouse, later expressed her feelings.
"I am embarrassed and ashamed,” she said. "Like everyone else, I feel betrayed and confused. The man who committed this horrible fraud is not the man whom I have known for all these years.”
by the associated press
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