Ruth Madoff Visits Bernie Behind Bars (VIDEO)

NEW YORK — Bernard Madoff's wife has visited him in the Manhattan jail where he has been held since pleading guilty to orchestrating perhaps the biggest Ponzi scheme in history.

News reports say Ruth Madoff arrived around 4:40 p.m. EDT Monday for her first visit to the Manhattan Correctional Center. She said nothing to reporters before or after her roughly 90-minute stay.

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Her husband admitted last month to defrauding thousands of investors of billions of dollars. His sentencing is set for June 16. Ruth Madoff has not been charged, but prosecutors want to seize the couple's assets, valued at $826 million at the end of last year.

Defense attorneys have indicated they may argue for Ruth Madoff to keep the pair's $7 million Manhattan apartment and about $62 million in securities.

Comments

[aicwebmaster]

04:55 PM on 04/08/2009

Good, I hope she gets a good look at what awaits her!

[teddybobby]

02:54 PM on 04/08/2009

SO THOUGHTFUL SHE VISITS BERNIE....­PERHAPS THE NEXT TIME SHE VISITS THE FEDS WILL SIMPLY PUT IN THE SAME CELL WITH THE BERNSTER AND THROW AWAY THE KEY....

[Virginia Wai]

02:53 PM on 04/08/2009

Not sure why this is news, perhaps to show us that she has not run away from the US?

[hollybork]

10:22 AM on 04/08/2009

I do not understand why this lady is not being prosecuted as an accessory to grand theft, fraud, conversion­, conspiracy to commit numerous securities violations­. If she ends up keeping even 10% of the $900 Million investigat­ors have found in the couple's name, the public will not stand for it. It is an outrage.

[Keith52]

10:33 AM on 04/08/2009

I agree.

[dimplesmile7]

11:33 AM on 04/08/2009

Thank you! I agree!

[Bugweed]

10:14 AM on 04/08/2009

Your catchy headline is misleading in the extreme, there are no such things as conjugal visits in the Federal system; every 1st year defense lawyer knows that. He's being held at the Federal Correction­s Center, there is no such thing there either. She visits under the same rules as everyone else, and will continue to do so no matter where Made Off is sent. Get it right.

[valkyrie607]

10:41 AM on 04/08/2009

So... no actual conjugatio­n happening?

[dontomas]

11:12 AM on 04/08/2009

The only conjugatio­n between the Madoffs is the collaborat­ion of what should be done with all the hidden money....d­o they record the conversati­ons?

[zanzig]

09:06 AM on 04/08/2009

"Defense attorneys have indicated they may argue for Ruth Madoff to keep the pair's $7 million Manhattan apartment and about $62 million in securities­."
Having just read VF's article on Madoff victims in Palm Beach and other places, including several widows who now appear to be destitute, I think that Ruth Madoff should be allowed to keep her apartment and securities on the condition that all of these widows are now to be housed with her and fed and clothed at her expense.

[lunchlady]

09:58 AM on 04/08/2009

And also pay for them to have the same salon services Ruth is accustomed to.
Actually I would prefer that Ruth be destitute and live in a homeless shelter if LE can't manage to jail her. And divide up "her" money for all Madoff victims to share.
Every expensive meal this woman eats is annoying.

[naan]

08:37 AM on 04/08/2009

CONjugal. she needed a cheque countersig­ned?

[Deluded]

04:53 AM on 04/08/2009

I was very disappoint­ed in this piece when I read the headline I was expecting something more raunchy.

[wanderingsalmon]

01:48 AM on 04/08/2009

Not a red cent!! She needs to be destitute if not in prison.

[XCITIZEN]

01:35 AM on 04/08/2009

I can think of nothing more horrifying that watching Ruth and Bernie Madoff have a 'conjugal visit.'

Please, God, make it stop....

[Hdaryl01]

01:41 AM on 04/08/2009

What DO YOU THINK she was wearing UNDER THAT STYLIST TRENCH COAT......­.......?

[Mondayboy]

03:38 AM on 04/08/2009

red bloomers

[skatscan]

10:04 AM on 04/08/2009

Lots of weeping and crying, I imagine.

[thedave108]

01:33 AM on 04/08/2009

Mrs. Made Off (with the money)

[BlackYowe]

01:12 AM on 04/08/2009

More like they chatted on how to hide the money.

[Stilts9]

11:58 PM on 04/07/2009

Capitalist pigs.

[brooklyncitizen]

11:57 PM on 04/07/2009

Is she hiding a cake with a file in it?

[H I McDonough]

02:46 AM on 04/08/2009

Doesn't need a cake.

[vinny]

10:52 PM on 04/07/2009

Take it all away.