Topic: Madoff

People Were So Mean to the Madoffs That They Attempted Suicide

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Ruth Madoff, who's being featured on 60 Minutes in the first interview she's done about her husband's crimes, says "I don't know whose idea it was, but we decided to kill ourselves because it was so horrendous what was happening."

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