America wants to see Ruth Madoff behind bars

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/america-wants-to-see-ruth-madoff-behind-bars-1667292.html

The jets and boats have been seized, her jewels may be next and she is ostracised by her high-society friends. But America wants more: to see Ruth Madoff behind bars

By Stephen Foley in New York

Saturday, 11 April 2009


For once, there is no one camped on the corner of Lexington Avenue and 64th Street. No television camera crew. No breathless newspaper reporters. Not even a lone paparazzo. For more than three months, 64th and Lex were the co-ordinates for an extraordinary media scrum, and even for some public protests, while a certain Bernard and Ruth Madoff looked down from their penthouse above.

But Bernard Madoff is in jail now, guilty pleas entered to all 11 of the fraud and perjury charges laid on him. His wife and companion of 50 years? She still has the $7m (£4.8m) apartment – for now – and the services of the security guards she hired to protect it after she and her husband shot to infamy.

she deserves what she gets. but she's old...i am much more invested in seeing the bushies behind bars, there to remain until they rot or die, whichever comes first.

lunching and shopping with many of her friends. Not on Worth Avenue mind you, but the Vias have many great shops and Ruthie was showing the plastic.