Ponzi schemer's wife, Ruth Madoff, sued for $44M
Photo credit: AP | Ruth Madoff is escorted by private security as she leaves the Metropolitan Correctional Center after visiting her husband, Bernie, in April.
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Already nearly squeezed dry by federal prosecutors, Ruth Madoff was sued Wednesday for $44 million allegedly taken from her husband Bernard's fraudulent business.
In a complaint filed Wednesday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan, trustee Irving Picard, who is liquidating Madoff's company, claimed that Ruth Madoff, who has maintained she wasn't involved in her husband's Ponzi scheme, received...
