No Funeral for Mark Madoff

Ponzi schemer's son to be cremated without service
Posted Dec 15, 2010 5:30 AM CST
No Funeral for Mark Madoff
Mark Madoff, 46, leaves behind four children, ages 18, 16, 4 and 2, and his wife.   (AP Photo/Security Traders Association of New York, Kimberly Unger)

Bernard Madoff's elder son will be cremated with no viewing and no funeral service, sources tell the New York Post. The body of Mark Madoff—who hanged himself on Saturday, the second anniversary of his father's arrest—was claimed by a funeral director on behalf of his family yesterday. His father, who is serving a 150-year sentence for running the biggest Ponzi scheme in history, had already said he wouldn't seek permission to attend his son's funeral. Click for more.
(More Mark Madoff suicide stories.)

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