Bernie Madoff victims oppose jail launch of Ponzi scheme chief



Bernard Madoff, founding father of Bernard L. Madoff Funding Securities, leaves federal court docket in New York on Tuesday, March 10, 2009.

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A whole bunch of victims of Ponzi scheme kingpin Bernie Madoff actually don't need him to get out of jail regardless of his declare that he's dying. They not too long ago instructed a choose their causes in often-heartbreaking letters.

"Our lives, and never simply financially, additionally emotionally, mentally, and bodily . . . have been Destroyed," wrote one sufferer, who famous that her husband misplaced $850,000 to Madoff.

One other girl wrote, "I misplaced all my cash and my husband of 40 years dedicated suicide due to his horrific crimes.

"So far as I'm involved, he ought to spend the remainder of his life in jail," she wrote to Choose Denny Chin in U.S. District Court docket in Manhattan.

Releasing Maddoff, a 3rd sufferer instructed Chin, "could be to place one other knife within the hearts of his victims."

These three letters are among the many roughly 520 that Madoff victims despatched Chin on...



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