POSTED June 30, 2009

Ruth Madoff: ‘This Is Not the Man I Owned Nine Homes With’

Bernie's Wife Breaks Her Silence

Just hours after her husband Bernie Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison for masterminding a $50 billion Ponzi scheme, Ruth Madoff expressed shock and dismay at her husband’s behavior, telling reporters, “This is not the man I owned nine homes with.”

“When you spend hundreds of millions of dollars with someone, you think you know him,” she said. “I guess I was wrong.”

Mrs. Madoff said she was kept “totally in the dark” about her husband’s activities because he used a clever cover story: “He told me he was hiking the Appalachian Trail.” More

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