Made Penniless by Madoff, She’s Forced to Scavenge
June 30, 2009 at 9:19 am | Posted in News, Uncategorized | Leave a commentAt Bernie Madoff’s sentencing yesterday, one of the swindler’s victims told the court that, due to Madoff’s depredations, she now scavenges food from trash cans.
As reported in Time, 65-year-old Miriam Siegman “described how she … can’t afford to buy new reading glasses and sometimes rummages through trash cans to eat.”
As reported in the New York Daily News, Siegman — depicted at left, wearing a hat — told the court:
“Madoff took away my ability to provide for myself. I lost everything, I lost my life.”
She said she was in court to represent those hundreds of unsung Madoff victims who lost their pensions and retirement funds: “There’s this notion that all Madoff’s victims were well-to-do,” Siegman said, “but that’s not true.”
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