Sales Price of Madoff’s Homes Dropping

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Let’s just hope Bernie Madoff’s ego isn’t bruised knowing that people aren’t immediately snapping up his swanky properties in Manhattan and Palm Beach, Fla. Reuters news service reports that the government has had to lower the asking price, the result of a a soft market. “Madoff’s 4,000-square-foot duplex Manhattan penthouse, ‘perched…

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Madoff Investor Found Dead in Palm Beach Pool

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The Bernie Madoff story has no happy ending. In fact, at this point it has no ending. The latest twist came Sunday when philanthropist Jeffry M. Picower, 67, who is accused of earning about $7 billion from Madoff’s Ponzi scheme, was found dead in his Palm Beach mansion pool,…

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