Bernard Madoff's elder son dead in suicide...

Mark Madoff, the elder son of convicted swindler Bernard Madoff, was found hanged in his New York City apartment in an apparent suicide on the second anniversary of his father's arrest, police and his lawyer said on Saturday.

The 46-year-old Mark Madoff, who had worked at his father's firm, "succumbed to two years of unrelenting pressure from false accusations and innuendo," his lawyer said. He was found dead in his apartment in the city's SoHo neighborhood, New York City police spokesman Paul Browne said.

Bernard Madoff, 72, is serving a 150-year prison sentence after confessing to running a decades-long Ponzi scheme that bilked investors out of billions, considered the biggest financial fraud in history. More...

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