Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Tuesday, July 9th.

Today on Forbes, The Sins of Ruth Madoff.

In an exclusive excerpt from a new book by Forbes contributing editor of investigations, Richard

Behar, about Bernie Madoff, called Madoff the final word, the Ponzi King's wife, Ruth, is portrayed as a liar.

Trained as a bookkeeper, she regularly reconciled the account that housed the

the 68 billion dollar fraud for decades.

The following is an excerpt lightly edited for clarity from the book,

which is out today Tuesday July 9th published by avid reader press Simon and Schuster.

Ruth Ruthy Books Made Off Simon and Schuster.

Ruthie Books Madoff. That's the nickname FBI Agents privately gave to Bernie Madoff's wife of nearly 62 years.

And it's a fitting one.

Given that she lied like a mobster on the witness stand

when she appeared on 60 minutes, one of the rare interviews she granted since her

husband's arrest in 2008. On the show, which aired in 2011, she told Morley Safer that

she had worked as a receptionist and bookkeeper at Bernard L. Made Off

Investment Securities, also known as BLMIS, from 1961 to 1963, but then left to raise

their sons.

She added, quote, and later on, when the boys started to work there, we lived within walking distance,

and I had an office there where I took care of decorating things and house things and boat bills

and managing those things.

But I was never the bookkeeper after 1963.

As with every Ponzi scheme, Bernie Madoff lured in new money by pointing to the mammoth gains

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