The body of Mark Madoff, who killed himself on the second anniversary of his father Bernie’s arrest for a massive Ponzi scheme, will be cremated without any funeral service, sources told The NY Post today.
“He is going to be cremated at the family’s wishes,” the source said, hours after Mark’s body was released by the Medical Examiner’s Office to a Manhattan funeral home. “No services, no viewing. The family doesn’t want a viewing.”
Mark Madoff, 46, hanged himself with a dog leash Saturday in his SoHo apartment on the second anniversary of his father’s arrest.
His death was officially ruled a suicide.
A funeral director at the Andrett Funeral Home-Gramercy Park Memorial Chapel took the body today from the Medical Examiner’s Office.
Bernard Madoff, 72, is serving a 150-year sentence for orchestrating the largest Ponzi scheme in US history.
His lawyer said Monday would not seek to attend his son’s funeral, a decision that is apparently moot at this point.
Mark had not spoken with his disgraced dad or his mother, Ruth, since he and his brother alerted federal authorities to Bernie’s epic crimes.
Mark Madoff had long been despondent over the scandal, which turned his family name to mud and rendered him unable to get a respectable Wall Street job.
Mark and Andrew Madoff have never been criminally charged, and they claimed to have had no knowledge of their dad’s scam, despite both having made millions of dollars while working at his Manhattan financial firm.
Still, the brothers became the targets of lawsuits seeking recovery of the stolen money.
(Source: NY Post)
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13 Responses
may they find atonement and peace and forgiveness and a rabbi should find a way to fight this descration of the housing of the jewish soul
Can Misaskin do anything?
How very, very sad for him and the rest of his family. BDE
Is he halachically a Jew? Was his mother Jewish?
hope someone can stop it.
They are probably afraid of the media circus that will take place and how this will affect his young children. Many non-frum Jews chose cremation, it is cheaper. A shame.
He probably wasn’t in his right mind when he hung himself so halachically it might not even be suicide. To cremate him may be even worse.
Dude faked his own death. He is probably somewhere in South America. Smart move.
#4 – yes and yes.
He couldn’t bare the thought of having to be just a normal.
He wasn’t threatened with jail, only with being forced to declare bankruptcy and start over again. It says something for secularism (and remember, he was at most a nominal Jew – the Madoffs had long since cut any ties with Yiddishkeit) that death is preferable to having to be working class.
1. Involved in public Chillul Hashem
2. Maavir Atzmo Ledaas
3. Cremation
Those are the objective facts. I guess one can be melamed z’chus on each of the 3 items:
1. Had no clue
2. Last minute second thoughts
3. Not his personal wishes
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#8 Petach Tikva…
and exactly WHY would law enforcement go along with such a thing???
To #2 Just Shteig says:
December 14, 2010 at 11:38 pm
Can Misaskin do anything?
RE: Yes! Misaskim did try!
read YWN
Misaskim Works Tirelessly To Offer Madoff A Jewish Burial
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/article.php?p=78380