Women in the Law
Mostly Mundane Madoff Auction Reveals ‘Shameless Excess’ Only in His Closet
Posted Nov 13, 2009, 06:48 pm CST
By Martha Neil
In a perhaps unexpected example of the banality of evil, attendees at a preview today of a New York auction of personal belongings bought with money from Bernard Madoff's record-breaking Ponzi scheme seemed disappointed at the mundane nature of much of the swag.
Aside from the "shameless excess" displayed in the items from his closet at his Upper East Side apartment in Manhattan, the convicted swindler didn't seem to have a great deal to show for his roughly $65 billion crime, writes the New York Times, citing a creamer shaped like a cow.
Madoff's clothing, however, included hundreds of pairs of shoes and numerous unworn items still displaying the original price tags.
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