As Bernie Madoff brags of a safe and almost pleasant prison experience, people outside continue to suffer from his lengthy con- including the widow of Madoff’s son, Mark.

After the scandal, Mark Madoff was unable to make peace with his father’s crimes. Two years after Madoff’s massive fraud was revealed, Mark died by his own hand in his SoHo apartment as his young son slept nearby. That was last December, and Mark’s widow Stephanie Madoff Mack has released a book detailing her pain after the loss of her husband and the disgrace the family had experienced following the scandal.

“The End Of Normal: A Wife’s Anguish, A Widow’s New Life,” out this week, reveals salacious details about both Bernie Madoff and wife Ruth, including the former’s poor boundaries with both family and employees and the latter’s strange eating habits and sordid family history. Madoff Mack says Bernie reached out to her after Mark’s death- adding she’d “spit in his face” if she met him again- and defended himself in the wake of the tragedy, saying:

“I realize that my pain will never take away the loss and suffering that you and the children feel… Stephanie, I can understand your hatred and anger towards me. Nothing I can say will probably change this.

“However I feel I must say some things to you. It is clear that you have bought into the media’s characterization of me. I know that you can’t believe it was ever my intention to hurt my family.”

In an ABC interview ahead of her book launch, Madoff Mack recounts how her calculating father-in-law “stood there in the corner at [her] wedding watching everyone dance, and he knew that everyone in that room was going to get screwed.” Stephanie also says she holds the elder Madoff “fully responsible” for Mark’s death. 

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Th 46-year-old elder son of fraudster Bernie Madoff was found dead earlier this morning, hanging from a pipe in his Mercer Street apartment in Manhattan.

Mark Madoff, alone in the SoHo home with his two-year-old son, had hanged himself from a pipe on the two-year anniversary of the revelation of his father’s massive fraud. Madoff was discovered just before 7:30 this morning by his father-in-law after his wife, Stephanie, received cryptic e-mails saying he loved her and to send someone to look after their small son. The child was found unharmed in the apartment.

A lawyer for Mark Madoff said his client was another innocent victim of his father’s now infamous investment scheme:

“It’s a terrible and unnecessary tragedy,” said Mark Madoff’s lawyer, Martin Flumenbaum.

“Mark was an innocent victim of his father’s monstrous crime who succumbed to two years of unrelenting pressure from false accusations and innuendo.”

Mark and his brother Andrew were sued again this week in Manhattan by trustees for the victims of Bernie Madoff’s scheme, in an attempt to recover funds thought to have been transferred to Madoff family members.

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Well known Wall Street trader and former chairman on the NASDAQ exchange Bernard Madoff has been arrested and charged with allegedly running a multi-billion dollar Ponzi scheme.

US Federal prosecutors accuse Madoff of telling senior employees of his advisory firm that “it’s all just one big lie” and that it was “basically, a giant Ponzi scheme,” according to a criminal complaint against him.

“Madoff stated that the business was insolvent, and that it had been for years. Madoff also stated that he estimated the losses from this fraud to be at least approximately $50 billion,” said Lev Dassin, the acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.

Madoff has been charged with a single count of securities fraud and faces up to 5 years in prison and a fine of up to $5 million.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission also filed civil charges against Madoff.

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