BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The sister of Wall Street fraudster Bernie Madoff and her husband were found dead in what investigators said was an apparent ...
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The bodies of Sondra Wiener and Marvin Wiener were found in their Florida home: They are the latest of the notorious financial scammer's relatives to die.
The couple moved to a $315,000 three-bedroom home in Valencia Lakes in 2009, online records show. ""There's no cure for my type of disease. "There is currently an investigation pending. The probe is ongoing. "Our thoughts and condolences go out to their family," the message reportedly continued. Deputies from the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office responded on Thursday about 12:55 p.m. to a 911 call about a male and female who were found unresponsive inside their home, the sheriff's office said in a statement.
Bernie Madoff exits Manhattan federal court. Sondra Wiener, Bernie Madoff's sister, and husband Marvin were discovered dead from gunshot wounds in their home.
Deputies received a call at 12:55 p.m. Thursday about the couple being unresponsive in their residence, authorities said. … She sent her son over to see if I needed any help in the last hurricane,” Milberg said. “I called her once to see if she’d seen the UPS truck come.” The couple’s death was a “shock to everyone,” the neighbor added. “The only time I saw her was in the grocery store. Neighbors of Bernie Madoff’s sister and her husband — who died last week in a suspected slay-suicide — said Monday the couple was “deeply in love” while coping with him being “very frail” in their final years.
The authorities said it appeared to be a murder-suicide.
The cause of death will be determined by the Medical Examiner’s Office. Bernie Madoff, who perpetrated one of the largest Ponzi schemes in Wall Street history and began serving a 150-year sentence in 2009, died last year in a federal prison hospital. Bernie Madoff’s sister, Sondra Wiener, and her husband were found dead on Thursday in their home in Boynton Beach, Fla., in what the authorities said was an apparent murder-suicide.
The disgraced financier's sister, Sondra Wiener, reportedly lost money in his Ponzi scheme.
But in a tweet and earlier version of the Facebook post, the sheriff’s office named Marvin, 90, Sondra Wiener’s husband. In phone interviews with The Washington Post that year, he expressed remorse for his crimes. On Facebook, the sheriff’s office named Sondra Wiener, 87, as one of the deceased.
The sister of Wall Street con artist Bernie Madoff and her husband were found dead last week in an apparent murder-suicide in Florida, according to the ...
The Sun Sentinel identified the man as Wiener's husband. The family of the man found dead invoked Marsy's Law, which seeks to protect the privacy rights of crime victims, but the sheriff's office appeared to name him in their release. Both the 90-year-old man and an elderly woman were discovered dead with gunshot wounds, said the sheriff's office said, which identified the woman as Sondra Wiener, 87.