Madoff Scraping By on Sixty-Nine Million Dollars

"You just can’t expect alleged scam artist Bernie Madoff to make ends meet on anything less than $69 million. In a legal argument filed in Federal Court, Bernie seeks to keep his $7 million penthouse on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, $17 million in cash stashed in his wife’s name, and $45 million in municipal bonds, also listed in his wife’s name. "