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Bernard Madoff’s jacket, watch auctioned in NYC

Quick ReadBernard and Ruth Madoff’s belongings fetched as much as 20 times their estimated value at auction.

Personal items are displayed during a press preview

Photo credit: Getty Images | Personal items are displayed during a press preview of a U.S. Marshals Service auction of personal property seized from Bernard and Ruth Madoff. (November 13, 2009)

NEW YORK  — 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 as much as 20 times their estimated value at auction Saturday.

Alan Richardson, a Florida dealer, almost got the fallen financier’s blue satin New York Mets baseball jacket with his surname stitched...

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