2010-12-12

Mark Madoff Dead in an "Apparent" Suicide

Yup, they are giving me a hard time putting this up so we must be hitting on something..... as usual,  the only time they do this is when they don't want it out there.  LOL  they just gutted it, but I got it back.  lol 

Vatic Note:  Well, let me say right up front this could very well be as it appears, however it could also be something else.   It could be retaliation for putting his father in prison by reporting his confession to the authorities that resulted in Madoffs arrest and encarceration,  or it could be "something else"...... It could be a take out of these high powered rollers who made millions off the markets, by patriots or ex military or intel services who were purged during the Bush admin, because they would not go along with the agenda.   That has happened over these past years up to 18 wall street bankers at very high levels and international top level bankers have either been "suicided",  "Heart attacked" or unsolved "murdered".   We have been tracking those that we know about or that manage to make the news if they think we will buy it.  Remember these deaths over the past years???? 

Here is what I wrote to someone about the deaths overseas that I do not have links to but can get with some time to research. (I found some of the links and am working on getting the rest, sorry about that,  they just disappeared off my file somehow,  understand, this is not something they want the public to know about if its what it appears given the timing and the number of them over the time period which is very short for such acts, and why don't they want the public to know???  Monkey see, monkey do, thats why! 

"I can understand why the leading gangbangers at Goldman Sachs (GS) are getting nervous as the number of parasitic vampire squids that have been exterminated keeps growing. Andrei Kozlov, Russian central banker, was riddled with bullets. Dead hedge fund managers include Seth Tobias, Oleg Zhukovsky, Rene-Thierry Magon de la Villehuchet, Michael Klein, Peter Wuffli and Kirk Wright  (will retreive additional links later)


.The list goes on. It includes David Kellerman, Freddie Mac CFO and even James MacDonald the CEO of the Rockefeller family offices. I suppose we should wish their famlies the best; except for New York tax attorney William Parente. Whoever he angered worked corruption of blood and his wife and two children were also murdered. There are many more examples. I keep thinking of the CEO of BHS who also got suicided with James MacDonald and all four within 48 hours of each other across the country.... THEN THERE IS THE MISSING PAULSON. hmmmmm (Come on, admit it, you haven't seen Paulson since he left the Bush admin, but we have had quotes from the msm, who would not want us to know that someone is taking out their owners, right???   Oh, and we forgot WASSERSTEIN"

Here are the ones where I have links

This one is the death by drowning in his own pool of one of the biggest beneficiaries of Madoffs multibillion
dollar ponzi scheme.
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/725.html

Freddie Mac CEO hangs self.
http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=7399376

Four Apparent Suicides/Deaths in 48 Hours - CEO-Financiers-Fundraiser (gee what a coincidence)
http://dprogram.net/2009/09/15/four-apparent-suicidesdeaths-in-48-hours-ceo-financiers-fundraiser/

Attempted Murder Of 6 Harvard Microbiologists (Remember, Harvard is the neocon funded facility the bad guys use to groom their minions,  Obama ring a bell???)
http://pathology.hms.harvard.edu/faculty-research.htm

Missing Melbourne businessman Herman Rockefeller's car found in Ballan (Rockefellers brother)
Herald Sun
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/melbourne-businessman-herman-rockefeller-missing/story-e6frf7jo-1225822964431

Mysterious Death of Mike Connell-Karl Rove's Election Thief
http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/12-mysterious-death-of-mike-connellkarl-roves-election-thief/

Bomb explodes at Oil Executives home.
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=7546937

"Israeli biological and nuclear scientists are being knocked off one by one"
http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1592.cfm

Mark Madoff Dead in an "Apparent" Suicide

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/12/business/12madoff.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=a25
By DIANA B. HENRIQUES and AL BAKER
Published: December 11, 2010

Mark Madoff, the older of Bernard L. Madoff’s two sons, hanged himself in his Manhattan apartment on Saturday, the second anniversary of his father’s arrest for running a gigantic Ponzi scheme that shattered thousands of lives around the world.

“Mark Madoff took his own life today,” Martin Flumenbaum, Mark Madoff’s lawyer, said in a statement. “This is a terrible and unnecessary tragedy.” He called his client “an innocent victim of his father’s monstrous crime who succumbed to two years of unrelenting pressure from false accusations and innuendo.”



According to Deputy Police Commissioner Paul J. Browne, officers responded to a 911 call made just before 7:30 Saturday morning from Mr. Madoff’s apartment building at 158 Mercer Street. Mr. Browne said Mr. Madoff’s body was found hanging from a black dog leash attached to a metal beam on the living room ceiling. He said there was no evidence of foul play.



http://video.nytimes.com/video/2010/12/11/us/1248069432228/mark-madoff-dead-in-apparent-suicide.html

Mr. Madoff’s 2-year-old son was asleep in an adjoining bedroom, Mr. Browne said.

Law enforcement officials said Mr. Madoff had sent e-mails to his wife in Florida sometime after 4 a.m. Saturday. “It was more than one,” said an official, who added: “He basically tells his wife he loves her and he wants someone to check on the child.”

Mr. Browne said the body was discovered by Martin London, a prominent New York lawyer who is the stepfather of Mark Madoff’s wife, Stephanie. Mr. London apparently had gone to the apartment in response to the message to check on the child. Reached by phone, Mr. London declined to comment.

A person in close contact with the family who had spoken with Mark Madoff frequently in the last few weeks said he had been in “an increasingly fragile state of mind” as the anniversary of his father’s arrest approached. The person said Mr. Madoff had expressed both continuing bitterness toward his father and anxiety about a series of lawsuits that were filed against him, his brother Andrew and other family members.

Just last week, Mr. Madoff, 46, was among the directors and officers of a Madoff affiliate in London who were sued by the trustee seeking assets for victims of the scheme.

It was the second lawsuit filed against him by the trustee, Irving H. Picard, who had initially sued him last year seeking to recover approximately $200 million that the family had received in salaries, bonuses, expense-account payments and gains in their own investment accounts at the Madoff firm.

Mr. Madoff was particularly upset that the trustee had named his young children as defendants in a lawsuit filed in late November seeking the recovery of money Bernard Madoff had paid out to his extended family over the years, according to the person who recently spoke with him, who insisted on anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on behalf of the family.

The person said Mr. Madoff had also been upset at some recent news coverage speculating that criminal charges against him and his brother were still likely.

Charges have not been filed against any of the immediate family members, and their lawyer has said publicly that neither Mark Madoff nor his brother has ever been notified by prosecutors that they were the subjects of a criminal investigation.

Nevertheless, there has been speculation that members of the Madoff family were vulnerable to being prosecuted for tax-law violations, given the variety of low-cost loans and generous expense-account payments that were part of the office culture at the Madoff brokerage firm.

The person who had recently spoken with Mr. Madoff said that there was also growing discouragement about finding a job. “He had concluded he was unemployable,” the person said.

Ira Lee Sorkin, a lawyer for Bernard Madoff, said he had not been able to contact his client at the North Carolina prison where he is serving a 150-year sentence for his crimes.

“But I’m very sure he has been informed,” Mr. Sorkin said, adding, “This is a great tragedy on many, many levels.”

A spokeswoman for the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Traci Billingsley, said, “Any time there is a death of a family member, and the agency is notified, we immediately notify the inmate.”

Inmates may request to attend funerals, she said, and those requests are considered case by case.

Peter Chavkin, a lawyer for Ruth Madoff, Mark’s mother, said simply: “Ruth is heartbroken.”

Mark Madoff had been a licensed broker at his father’s firm since June 1987. A number of Mark’s oldest childhood friends from Roslyn, N.Y., invested with the Madoff firm and lost their savings in the fraud, said another person who was close to the family. This destroyed those relationships and caused Mr. Madoff great pain, the person Mark Madoff

And on the advice of his lawyer, Mark Madoff has had no contact with his parents since the day before his father’s arrest two years ago.

The steps that led to that arrest began when he and his brother, Andrew, confronted their father over his plans to distribute hundreds of millions of dollars in bonuses to employees months ahead of schedule.

According to documents filed by the F.B.I. at the time of the arrest, that meeting led to a private conversation on Dec. 10, 2008, in which Bernard Madoff told his sons that all the wealth and success the family seemed to possess were based on a lie — an immense Ponzi scheme that was crumbling under the pressures of the financial crisis.

Mark and his brother immediately consulted a lawyer and were advised they had to report their father’s confession to law enforcement. They did so, and the following morning their father was arrested at his Manhattan penthouse.

The public fury over the stunning crime — Bernard Madoff estimated the losses at $50 billion — was not limited to its mastermind. Mark Madoff, his mother and his brother were all the subject of constant media speculation. Many articles speculated that they had been involved in their father’s crime, or at least were aware of it.

The lawsuits that are pending against Mr. Madoff will not necessarily be derailed by his death. Typically, the litigation would continue against the estate of any deceased defendant.

The autopsy on Mr. Madoff is scheduled to be conducted on Sunday, said Ellen S. Borakove, a spokeswoman for the city’s chief medical examiner, Charles S. Hirsch. She said that the results should be available “by early afternoon” on Sunday.

Mr. Madoff’s body was removed on a stretcher from his building on the edge of SoHo shortly after noon Saturday. Police blocked off the street for a while as a crowd of reporters and camera crews mixed with a growing number of people stopping to watch. The building is also home to the performer Jon Bon Jovi.

Gregarious and handsome, Mark was the more outgoing of Mr. Madoff’s two sons. At the University of Michigan, his social circle included students largely from other well-to-do East Coast families.

He graduated in 1986 and moved to New York to join his father’s firm. Most of his friends rented crammed studios, but Mark lived in an apartment his father had bought for him in Sterling Plaza, a luxury high-rise on Manhattan’s East Side developed by Sterling Equities. Sterling is controlled by Fred Wilpon, the owner of the New York Mets, whose family was friendly with the Madoffs and whose businesses had invested hundreds of millions of dollars in the Ponzi scheme.

Mark Madoff married his college girlfriend, Susan, and moved to Greenwich, Conn., where they raised two children. They divorced in the 1990s and Mark eventually moved back to Manhattan. He was remarried, to Stephanie Mikesell, and had two more children with her.

His brother Andrew was considered more cerebral and reserved than Mark, and served as co-director of trading with his brother. He, too, joined his father’s firm after earning an undergraduate business degree from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

The civil lawsuit Mr. Picard filed last year said Bernard Madoff’s firm “operated as if it were the family piggy bank.” It said Mark received at least $66.9 million of improper proceeds, including approximately $30 million in compensation since 2001, from his father’s firm.

Mark and his relatives were “completely derelict” in carrying out their roles at the firm, the suit said.

At the time, Mr. Flumenbaum, Mark’s lawyer, said in a statement that his client “strongly disagreed with the trustee’s baseless claims.”



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