{"id":11142,"date":"2009-07-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"madoff-victims-sue-his-family-for-45m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2009\/madoff-victims-sue-his-family-for-45m.html","title":{"rendered":"Madoff victims sue his family for $45m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CityWire.co.uk &#8211; Bernard Madoff&#8217;s wife Ruth is being sued for $44.8 million (&euro;31.9 million) by the trustee for the victims of his&nbsp;$50 billion Ponzi scheme.<\/p>\n<p>Court-appointed trustee Irving Picard is the first person to take action against Madoff&#8217;s family members, all of whom have denied knowledge of the scam.<\/p>\n<p>Picard&rsquo;s lawsuit states: &lsquo;Regardless of whether or not Mrs Madoff knew of the fraud her husband perpetrated&hellip;she received tens of millions of dollars&hellip;to which Mrs Madoff had no good faith basis to believe she was entitled.&rsquo;<\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citywire.co.uk\/selector\/-\/news\/other\/content.aspx?ID=351746\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Read Complete Article\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CityWire.co.uk &#8211; Bernard Madoff&#8217;s wife Ruth is being sued for $44.8 million (&euro;31.9 million) by the trustee for the victims of his&nbsp;$50 billion Ponzi scheme. Court-appointed trustee Irving Picard is the first person to take action against Madoff&#8217;s family members, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4331,144,5448,14739,797,5312,14738,11104,11378,7120,4819,8406],"class_list":["post-11142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-bernard-madoff","tag-citywire","tag-family-members","tag-first-person","tag-fraud","tag-good-faith","tag-lawsuit-states","tag-nbsp","tag-picard","tag-tens","tag-trustee","tag-wife-ruth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}