Madoffs Suicide Followed Battle with Trustee: ; Trustee Irving Picard Accused Both Sons of Prior Knowledge

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NEW YORK - For two years, the two sons of jailed financier Bernard Madoff portrayed themselves as honest whistleblowers of their father's historic fraud. A court-appointed trustee depicted them as bungling money managers who did nothing to protect investors.

The suicide of Mark Madoff leaves unanswered questions for investors seeking payback for the billions of dollars his father siphoned - and for criminal investigators who continued to pursue charging Madoff's family for knowing participation in the fraud.

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Madoffs Suicide Followed Battle with Trustee: ; Trustee Irving Picard Accused Both Sons of Prior Knowledge

The 46-year-old Madoff - Bernard Madoff's eldest son - hanged himself Saturday by a dog leash on a metal ceiling beam in his Manhattan loft apartment, his 2-year-old son asleep in another room. The death was officially ruled a suicide by hanging Sunday by the city m...

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