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Bernard Madoff's jacket, watch auctioned in NYC

Quick ReadMadoff's jacket sells for $14,500 in NYC auction, wife's diamond earrings fetch $70,000

NEW YORK (AP) — It was about fascination with big money — and the life of a couple at the center of the biggest financial fraud case in U.S. history.

Bernard and Ruth Madoff's belongings fetched several times their estimated values at auction Saturday for a total of about $1 million, twice as much as the auctioneers had hoped for.

The fallen financier's blue satin New York Mets baseball...

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