NEW YORK — Ruth Madoff, wife of accused con artist Bernard Madoff, plans to hire an attorney, according to a lawyer at the firm that represents the couple. Ruth and Bernard Madoff have been represented by Ira Sorkin and Dan Horwitz at Dickstein Shapiro.
“Ruth Madoff will be retaining her own counsel,” Horwitz said Monday. “The need arises because of her being named in two civil actions.”
Bernard Madoff, 70, is scheduled to appear today in Manhattan federal court.
Last week, U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton, who is presiding over a lawsuit against Madoff by the Securities and Exchange Commission, said the money manager’s lawyers claimed that Ruth Madoff alone owns a Manhattan apartment, $45 million in bonds and $17 million in cash. The attorneys said she claimed those assets are “unrelated” to the alleged Ponzi scheme run by her husband. Bloomberg News
