Convicted swindler Bernie Madoff won’t be attending the funeral of his son Mark, who committed suicide in his Manhattan home over the weekend, the Wall Street Journal reported.
“Mr. Madoff will not be attending the funeral out of consideration” for his family, attorney Ira Sorkin told the Journal. Madoff will have his own private ceremony at his North Carolina prison.
Details of the funeral were still unclear and Mark Madoff’s body remained in the New York City morgue on Monday, the Journal reported. In the Jewish faith, a body is buried as quickly as possible.
NBC’s Today Show reported that the son had not talked to the parents in a long time and that Ruth Madoff, Bernie’s wife, was angry at her husband over the suicide, saying he had blood on his hands.
Mark Madoff and his brother denied ever knowing that their father ran a sham operation, though some are skeptical of those claims.
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