Madoffs Family In The Firing Line

Posted on 4 October 2009 by Stenberg-Tendys W.L. in Society

Madoff’s sons, brother and niece, who all worked at the ‘firm’ are being sued for $199 million.

Trustee, Irving Picard, is suing, Madoff’s brother, Peter, who was the investment securities firm’s chief compliance officer. The sons, Andrew and Mark, served as co-directors of trading, while the niece, Shana, was the compliance director.

Picard said the family management team “Either failed to detect or failed to stop the fraud, thereby enabling and facilitating the Ponzi scheme at [the firm].”

Picard alleged the firm operated as if it were the family piggy bank. “Each of the family defendants took huge sums of money out of the firm to fund personal business ventures and personal expenses such as homes, cars and boats.”

John R. Wing, lawyer for Peter Madoff, alleges that Peter’s wife and daughter are among the many victims of Bernard Madoff’s alleged Ponzi scheme, having lost millions of dollars that were invested with Madoff.

Martin Flumenbaum, lawyer for Mark and Andrew Madoff, said “He and his clients strongly disagree with the trustee’s baseless claims.”

Flumenbaum says that Mark and Andrew Madoff had no prior knowledge of Bernard Madoff’s ponzi scheme. They were the ones who contacted the U.S. Department of Justice and the SEC, immediately after their father told them he had defrauded his investment advisory clients. “By immediately turning him in, the brothers saved the victims of the fraud more than $170 million that their father was about to distribute.”

Flumenbaum claims that Mark and Andrew Madoff “Suffered substantial losses as a result of their father’s crimes and continue to cooperate fully with the authorities in their ongoing investigations.”

The suit against the family members is in addition to the $44.8 million lawsuit against Madoff’s wife, Ruth. The claim against Ruth Madoff is based on the amount of money she transferred from the firm over a six-year period.

Madoff is currently serving a 150 year sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution Butner in North Carolina.

Madoffs Mistress

Madoff’s mistress, Sheryl Weinstein, reveals details of her alleged affair with Madoff, in her book ‘Madoff’s Other Secret Loves’.

Weinstein, claimed Madoff loved her and that they had a sexual relationship for a year and half, during their 21 year relationship.

Weinstein admits the only thing she has to sell is her story, in an attempt to assist her family regain some of the money they lost by investing with Madoff.

Weinstein’s husband of 37 years, sat with her when she told the judge, that Madoff should not be given the opportunity to walk into society again.

In her book Weinstein divulges personal details about the man she referred to as ‘Mr Winky Dink’, because of a funny face he would make.

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