Open for debate. I think Madoff is hiding cash, and someone wants it back. This is a message to Madoff to play ball.....
NEW YORK — One of jailed financier Bernard Madoff's sons was found dead of an apparent suicide Saturday on the second anniversary of his father's arrest, according to a law enforcement official.
Mark Madoff, 46, was found in his apartment in Manhattan's fashionable SoHo district, according to the official. A family member notified police around 7:30 a.m.
His body was found hanging from a dog leash that had been fashioned into a noose and strung over a pipe in the ceiling of his living room, according to a law enforcement official.
The official was not authorized to speak publicly about the case and spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity. The official said Madoff's 2-year-old son was asleep in his bedroom at the time.
Mark Madoff and his younger brother, Andrew, were under investigation but hadn't faced any criminal charges in the massive Ponzi scheme that led to their father's jailing.
Mark Madoff's lawyer said the death was a terrible and unnecessary tragedy.
"Mark Madoff took his own life today. This is a terrible and unnecessary tragedy," Martin Flumenbaum, an attorney representing Mark and his brother Andrew, said. "Mark was an innocent victim of his father's monstrous crime who succumbed to two years of unrelenting pressure from false accusations and innuendo. We are all deeply saddened by this shocking turn of events."
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