NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Ruth Madoff, wife of imprisoned Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff, was sued Wednesday by a court-appointed trustee seeking $45 million in buy ed hardyfunds to compensate victims. Last month, federal authorities seized the Madoffs' assets but left Ruth Madoff with $2.5 million -- an amount they could not tie to her husband's massive and long-runningcheap ed hardy Ponzi scheme. But Irving Pickard, the trustee appointed by U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New York, said that Ruth r...
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