Wiener was not the first member of the family to make a suicide attempt in the years following Madoff’s arrest. Bernie Madoff and his wife, Ruth, attempted suicide in Dec. 2008 but survived.

Mark Madoff killed himself in 2010 on the second anniversary of his father’s arrest; Andrew died of cancer a few years after.

Ramaz and Y.U. declined to speak to JTA, as did Hadassah, the Elie Wiesel Foundation, the Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family Foundation and several others. Ruth Madoff, Bernie’s wife, politely ...

It’s been more than 15 years since federal authorities put an end to Bernie Madoff’s massive ... scheme which enriched himself, his family and others. Madoff was sentenced to 150 years ...

He spent seven years speaking with some of the biggest white-collar criminals in history including Bernie Madoff. He provided Business Insider with a rare audio recording from one of his ...

BASED on New York Times journalist Diane Henriques’s account of the Madoff affair, The Wizard of Lies is a psychologically simplistic tragedy about Bernie’s impact on his immediate family ...

Five years ago Sunday, Bernie Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison for running the biggest fraudulent scheme in U.S. history. Even now, only a few of his victims have since regained all of ...