Which madoff son has cancer

The former employees were convicted in March and are scheduled to be sentenced later this month. Based in part on the prosecution testimony, Irving Picard, the trustee seeking Bernard Madoff's assets on behalf of victimized investors, in July sought approval to file an amended U.

Bankruptcy Court lawsuit against the brothers. In court filings last month, attorneys for the brothers asked the court to deny Picard's motion. They noted that a similar case the trustee filed against the Madoff sons in the United Kingdom, where Bernard Madoff's business also had an office, had ended in a "resounding" legal defeat.

Bernie Madoff, now 76, is serving a year sentence at a medium security federal prison in Butner, North Carolina. He has not responded to a request for a comment. A Bureau of Prisons spokesman would not discuss Madoff specifically, but said inmates are typically informed of a family member's death by the prison chaplain if the family requests it.

Inmates can ask for leave to attend a relative's funeral, and the spokesman said those requests are considered on a case-by-case basis.

Madoff did not ask to attend Mark's funeral. Sources said Andrew was particularly adamant in insisting that family members have no contact with his father after the scam came to light. That included Ruth Madoff, who appeared with her son in a series of interviews to promote a book about the scandal in Read More Madoff trustee alleges Madoff sons knew of father's fraud.

Last year, Andrew Madoff told People magazine he would " never forgive'' his father for his crimes and blamed a recurrence of his cancer on the stress caused by his father's arrest and conviction. Bernard Madoff did not attend Mark's funeral. Madoff replied to Mr. You know, I knew absolutely nothing about this before my father shared the information with us. And it was the most shocking and terrible moment of my life.

His father was sentenced to years in prison. His mother said she and Bernard tried to kill themselves by prescription-drug overdose two weeks after his arrest.

Mark Madoff took his own life on Dec. And Andrew Madoff, in April , disclosed the recurrence of his mantle cell lymphoma, a form of cancer for which he had been treated in He underwent a stem-cell transplant in May , following chemotherapy and radiation. During summers, both brothers worked as dock boys at what became the Montauk Yacht Club. They started a boat-washing business. Following a month backpacking around Europe, he began working for his dad on Aug.

His brother, too, had gone to work for their father upon graduating from the University of Michigan two years earlier.