From Yahoo News –

The eldest son of disgraced financier Bernard Madoff hanged himself by a dog leash in his Manhattan apartment on Saturday, the second anniversary of his father’s arrest in a multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme that swindled thousands of investors of their life savings, law enforcement officials said.

Mark Madoff, 46, was found hanging from a ceiling pipe in the living room of his SoHo loft apartment as his 2-year-old son slept in a nearby bedroom, two law enforcement officials told The Associated Press.

The law enforcement officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly about the death.

Madoff, who reported his father to authorities, has never been criminally charged in the biggest investment fraud in U.S. history, that has snared a half-dozen Madoff employees.

This is unfortunate, another casualty of Madoff’s insane delusions of wealth and success.

There is no evidence before us that suggests that Madoff’s son had any role in his father’s crimes. Probably if he had participated, he would already have prepared himself mentally for the challenge of self justification.

The Bible says that a man’s crimes can pass from one generation to another. Let us hope this one stops here. This much damage is quite enough.

I don’t know what kind of life he led, what things he thought about, what expectations he held, but his life was important and that light is gone.

James Pilant