The Palm Beach Post reports:
Bernard Madoff’s $9.3 million Palm Beach mansion is now in the hands of the U.S. government, along with two of his boats and a Mercedes.
At 6 p.m. Wednesday, about a dozen agents from the U.S. Marshals Service descended on the five-bedroom, seven-bath house along the Intracoastal Waterway.
“I’ve never seen so much bull in my life,” Deputy U.S. Marshal Barry Golden said shortly after entering the house. “Pictures of bulls, bull statues, even bulls on clothing. There’s a lot of bull in the house.”
The bull theme even extended to the boats seized earlier Wednesday. A 55-foot yacht moored at a Fort Lauderdale marina is named Bull. A 24-foot speedboat taken from a warehouse in Palm City is named Little Bull.
You couldn’t make it up.
Related links:
Madoff’s secret: keep mum when asked about methods – Bloomberg
Judge Accepts Pact for Peter Madoff Asset Freeze – WSJ
U.S. Gets Madoff’s Florida Real Estate Headache – DealBook