Appraising Madoff
It was a bit surprising how little attention was paid to the announcement of Madoff’s death in prison. Good. His returns were amazingly linear and there were a number of people that kept calling out the ponzi but he was close with regulators. Because my firm is located in NYC, we’ve ended up doing appraisals in matters related to the post-Madoff tragedy/cleanup. All those people who trusted in him that had their finances destroyed – still hard to process. In the aftermath, we appraised the properties of his wife, brother, both of his sons (the apartment where one sons committed...