Once Rich Woman Cleans Houses After Madoff

January 22. 2009

Mrs. Ebel

The next story is going to disgust you. A 60-year-old woman named Mrs. Ebel, that lost $7.3 million with Bernard Madoff, is selling off most of her possessions, to save her house. She was a retired nurse, who was married to a doctor that passed away, but now has to obtain recertification to make a living.

In the meantime, she is cleaning houses, while Madoff is relaxing in luxury in his New York City penthouse. He should have been remanded into custody. He deserves life in prison for doing this to thousands of people.

West Goshen widow's riches-to-rags story

Ebel, 60, a widow who lives outside West Chester and winters near West Palm Beach, thought she had $7.3 million with Madoff.

It became sickeningly clear over the next day or so that all her money was gone. "The thought that I have to work now as long as I can stand up to feed myself" shattered her comfortable world, she said.

Six days after Madoff's arrest for allegedly bilking investors in a $50 billion Ponzi scheme, Ebel had a strenuous temporary job caring for a wealthy friend's 93-year-old mother and keeping her house, pushing the vacuum cleaner and ironing.

"The first day, I went home and cried," Ebel said…

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