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NEW YORK (AP) - A son of disgraced Wall Street financier Bernard Madoff urged the authorities in panic after receiving a text message he thought was a suicide note from his father months after his arrest in December 2008 fraud scam, a new book says.
The forthcoming book, "Truth and Consequence," tells how Andrew Madoff and his brother, Mark Madoff, received a message on their mobile phone in March 2009. Bernard Madoff told his son that he loved them and take care of their mother. The book said it was the first post Andrew Madoff had his father after his arrest.
Andrew Madoff called police, who checked on his father and found no cause for concern.
The book also has a wife and mother of Ruth Madoff when he said that he and Bernard Madoff tried to kill himself days after his arrest.
"Truth and consequences", written by Laurie Sandell, will be published by Little, Brown and Co. October 31. The Associated Press purchased a copy Thursday.
The forthcoming book, "Truth and Consequence," tells how Andrew Madoff and his brother, Mark Madoff, received a message on their mobile phone in March 2009. Bernard Madoff told his son that he loved them and take care of their mother. The book said it was the first post Andrew Madoff had his father after his arrest.
Andrew Madoff called police, who checked on his father and found no cause for concern.
The book also has a wife and mother of Ruth Madoff when he said that he and Bernard Madoff tried to kill himself days after his arrest.
"Truth and consequences", written by Laurie Sandell, will be published by Little, Brown and Co. October 31. The Associated Press purchased a copy Thursday.
Bernard Madoff, who stole billions of dollars in the biggest Ponzi scheme in history and pleaded guilty to fraud charges, said in an interview, he has horrible nightmares and terrible remorse in his epic project but feels happier in jail he has felt in 20 years.
Barbara Walters told ABC's "Good Morning America" on Thursday that he was interviewed for two hours in jail Madoff Butner, North Carolina, where he covers the 150 years in prison. Cameras were not in prison.
Walters said Madoff, who is in his 70s, said she thought of suicide before he was sent to prison, but because there was no longer thought.
His comments are his wife, before the appearance of the Sunday edition of CBS 60 Minutes, "where he speaks on the eve of Christmas 2008 suicide attempt.
"I do not know who had the idea, but we decided to kill because it was so terrible what happened," he said in the interview, according to excerpts released by CBS.
She said the couple had "a lot of pills," including Ambien insomnia prescription drugs, but both woke up the next day. She says the decision was "very impulsive" and is glad they do not die.
Andrew Madoff also speaks of his experience in CBS.
Little, Brown has been promoting "truth and consequences" since last summer, when he warned that the booksellers an unnamed book by Anonymous, come out in the fall and say "the inside story of life with one of the most controversial figures of our time. "
Stores has been asked to blindly order the book, did not know the author or title, a sales technique reserved for high-profile releases. Sandell had greater access to family and questioned Madoff Ruth Madoff, Andrew Madoff and his girlfriend, Catherine Hooper.
The book shows that family ties were apparently both a blessing and a burden. Recounts the reactions of parents to Madoff "in his new world was built on lies and the consequences and the damage it did to his relationships with others. Andrew Madoff have moments like that remembers her mother crying over her and the negative his brother to sign an agreement on bail from his father, and the refusal of his sister-in-law will allow his mother in the Memorial of Mark Madoff.
"The truth and consequences", was released 11 days after Madoff Stephanie Mack "the end of the world. The anguish of a woman, a widow of a new life" Mack was the wife of Mark Madoff, who committed suicide on the second anniversary of the arrest of his father.
"I hated Bernie carefully and deeply about the brand instantly told me what he had done," writes Mack.
Mark Madoff hanged himself with a dog leash over the past year, his father was arrested. Like his parents, had swallowed sleeping pills in the game failed suicide attempt 14 months earlier, according to his widow of the book.
Bernie Madoff was arrested on December 11, 2008, the day after his son reported to the authorities through a lawyer who had confessed that his investment firm was Ponzi a billionaire and he cheated thousands of investors.
Madoff ran his scheme for at least two decades, using his investment advice to cheat individuals, charitable institutions, institutional investors and celebrities, including former talk show host Larry King of CNN.
One study found Bernard Madoff never made any investments, instead of using money from new investors to pay off existing customers - and to fund a lavish lifestyle for his family. Losses were estimated at $ 20 billion, making it the largest investment fraud in American history.
The king told the syndicated television news "Extra" that he and his wife have invested $ 700 000 with Madoff, but we were lucky to get it back: $ 200 000 of the assets of Madoff and 500 000 dollars from the government for taxes paid in shares, never had.
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Online:
http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/60minutes/main3415.shtml
http://abcnews.go.com/watch/good-morning-america/SH5587637
http://www.extratv.com
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