The ultimate escape. "I do not know who was the idea, but we had decided to commit suicide because what was happening was really terrible," recalled Ruth Madoff during an interview with TV channel CBS to be broadcast Sunday.
Three years after the collapse of the Madoff affair, the wife of the one we nicknamed the crook of the century has indeed told, "we received phone calls terrible. Emails filled with hatred, beyond the unimaginable, and I said, "I can just go on.
'" While Bernard Madoff was arrested Dec. 11, 2008 and sentenced in June 2009 to 150 years in prison for organizing a gigantic fraud - which is estimated at more than $ 65 billion - this is the first time woman is willing to publicly back their experiences. And Ruth Madoff to explain: "We have taken these pills, but the next day we woke up ... It was (a decision) very impulsive, I'm glad we're awake. " A family destroyed
The collapse of the Madoff case was very serious consequences for the family gravitated to the top of the right of American society. Indeed, while the father should end his days behind bars of a prison, the couple's son ended his life.
And while he has defrauded wealthy individuals, charitable institutions, universities and banks in several countries, however, Bernard Madoff had recently written to his daughter-he ran good days in a cell and prisoners and prison staff treated him "like a mafia boss."