now, another change for ruth madoff. under a new order, signed by a manhattan bankruptcy judge, madoff must submit a monthly report of expenses that individually exceed $100 to a trustee. >> ruth madoff's legal position is, i didn't know. and essentially the trustee is now saying, we don't buy it. so she's now in a position where she's going to have to prove that any money that she has wasn't tainted. that's a tough spot to be in. >> reporter: in a statement to nbc news, ruth madoff's attorney said, quote, this agreement is a reasonable accommodation in the context of this lawsuit. but that lawsuit, filed by the same trustee, irving pickard, also calls for ruth madoff to return nearly $45 million allegedly transferred to her from her husband's firm. money he claims ruth madoff used to live a life of splendor, a claim her lawyer calls perplexing and totally unjustified. and under the new court order, ruth madoff is allowed to spend her money on reasonable living expenses, including legal fees. but the order does allow the

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and she is not on goldman's payroll, but ruth madoff can't spend more than $100 on anything without having to hand over the receipt. a bankruptcy judge ordered bernie madoff's wife to report any purchases above tt amount to the trustee overseeing the liquidation of her husband's finances. last week she was sued seeking to reclaim $45 million to repay investors. it will be interesting to see if she keeps all those receipts in a little shoe box like so many of us do with our receipts. >> not living the life she used to live for sure. >> absolutely not. >> thank you, rebecca. we will see you later. >>> this group of thieves have expensive taste in liquor. police in florida released the surveillance video showing robbers taking high-priced bottles of liquor hiding them in their pants. they believe the pants have specially-made pockets or sleeves on the inside. authorities say these thieves have stolen thousands of dollars of high-end liquor in stores up and down the florida coast. >> police near philadelphia are investigating a strange series of apartment burglaries. it's not so much about wha

and ruth madoff in this month's "vanity fair" -- >> did ruth madoff know about these mistresses? >> she says she did not. >> i just want to ask you one final question before we take a break and come back, how big is the pillow? you're sleeping on the same pillow for 20 years. >> how big is the beast? >> how big is the beast? that's what we'll explore. vicky ward will stay with us. more details on this salacious madoff affair. i can't believe it. he had more than one affair. t monetary psychopath and cultural and socio psychopath.ea ld! - oh, come on. - enough! you get half and you get half. ( chirp ) team three, boathouse? ( chirp ) oh yeah-- his and hers. - ( crowd gasping ) - ( chirp ) van gogh? ( chirp ) even steven. - ( chirp ) mansion. - ( chirp ) good to go. ( grunts ) timber! ( chirp ) boss? what do we do with the shih-tzu? - ( crowd gasps ) - ( chirp ) joint custody. - phew! - announcer: get work done now. communicate in less than a second with nextel direct connect. only on the now network. , hard of hearing and an people with speech dischities accessac.sprintrelay.com.

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greta: did you see the pictures of ruth madoff after she got thrown off of her -- out of her apartment? >> yes, i did. greta: what did you think? >> i don't feel sorry for her. i think that part of her ignored the situation. she benefited from a lot of other people's money. greta: and do you have any reason to know or to think -- any indication that she was part of this or was aware of it and look to the other way? >> i don't have any true knowledge but if i was to give an opinion, i would say that she looked the other way. greta: what makes you say that? >> because she was a financial person. nothing got by her. she was involved in this business for a long time. i do feel that when everything said and done, this has started a long time ago. greta: how do you think he is going to do? >> well, he is managing. i read he had cancer. i don't know how much credibility that anyone can put into we are reading. greta: do you hate him? >> yes. he stole my family. he stole my dreams. he still dreams for all of these people. he was an equal opportunity destroyer. it was about him and histamines a

. >> an attorney for madoff's wife, ruth madoff said his client did not know about the alleged affair. >>> we are learning more about the final hours of michael jackson's life. especially the period of time between when police found the singer not breathing to the moment someone called 911. a police affidavit said dr. conradt murray found the singer not breathing at 11:00 a.m. the day the singer died. he told investigators he had given him drugs to help him sleep. however the 911 call wasn't made until an hour later. and now, cell phone records show the doctor made 47 minutes worth of other phone calls. >> i think any reasonable person would expect dr. murray to administer cpr and call 911 immediately. this is reckless conduct. that's exactly what law enforcement needs for a manslaughter charge. >> so far, dr. murray hasn't been charged, but his las vegas office has been closed since jackson's death. >>> a huge wild fire continues to burn right now near los angeles. a thousand firefighters are battling the flames in the foothills of the valley. fire officials report no homes or busine

greta: did you see the pictures of ruth madoff after she got thrown off of her -- out of her apartment? >> yes, i did. greta: what did you think? >> i don't feel sorry for her. i think that part of her ignored the situation. she benefited from a lot of other people's money. greta: and do you have any reason to know or to think -- any indication that she was part of this or was aware of it and look to the other way? >> i don't have any true knowledge but if i was to give an opinion, i would say that she looked the other way. greta: what makes you say that? >> because she was a financial person. nothing got by her. she was involved in this business for a long time. i do feel that when everything said and done, this has started a long time ago. greta: how do you think he is going to do? >> well, he is managing. i read he had cancer. i don't know how much credibility that anyone can put into we are reading. greta: do you hate him? >> yes. he stole my family. he stole my dreams. he still dreams for all of these people. he was an equal opportunity destroyer. it was about him and histamines a

jon: ruth madoff is used to a life of luxury, with yachts, a villa in france.but since her husband's fraud conviction, life has changed for her. he will not believe what she has to do now before she can even spend $100. jane: hitting a guard rail and rolling over. we will give you an update on this accident. jon: president obama is turning 48 today. he is trying to get his plans for health care reform done before the august recess. health care and the economy are expected to be hot topics today. what else is on the agenda? >> you are right. the president is expected to make a push for more money for cash for clunkers. now the president's is expecting him to sell that. we expect 57 senate democrats to be here, the exceptions being senator kennedy, and senator byrd. three will be out for health reasons. jon: let's talk about cash for clunkers. the senate wants the house authorize more money for the program, right? >> you are right, and the white house makes the case that they think this is an effective example of the economic stimulus package working, at least fo

greta: did you see the pictures of ruth madoff after she got thrown off of her -- out of her apartmentwhat did you think? >> i don't feel sorry for her. i think that part of her ignored the situation. she benefited from a lot of other people's money. greta: and do you have any reason to know or to think -- any indication that she was part of this or was aware of it and look to the other way? >> i don't have any true knowledge but if i was to give an opinion, i would say that she looked the other way. greta: what makes you say that? >> because she was a financial person. nothing got by her. she was involved in this business for a long time. i do feel that when everything said and done, this has started a long time ago. greta: how do you think he is going to do? >> well, he is managing. i read he had cancer. i don't know how much credibility that anyone can put into we are reading. greta: do you hate him? >> yes. he stole my family. he stole my dreams. he still dreams for all of these people. he was an equal opportunity destroyer. it was about him and histamines and morality and everythi

greta: did you see the pictures of ruth madoff after she got thrown off of her -- out of her apartmentel sorry for her. i think that part of her ignored the situation. she benefited from a lot of other people's money. greta: and do you have any reason to know or to think -- any indication that she was part of this or was aware of it and look to the other way? >> i don't have any true knowledge but if i was to give an opinion, i would say that she looked the other way. greta: what makes you say that? >> because she was a financial person. nothing got by her. she was involved in this business for a long time. i do feel that when everything said and done, this has started a long time ago. greta: how do you think he is going to do? >> well, he is managing. i read he had cancer. i don't know how much credibility that anyone can put into we are reading. greta: do you hate him? >> yes. he stole my family. he stole my dreams. he still dreams for all of these people. he was an equal opportunity destroyer. it was about him and histamines and morality and everything else paid second choralfiddle.

. >> ruth madoff's tight budget on the other side of the break.nnouncer: some people buy a car based on the deal they get. - others buy the car of their dreams. - ( beeps ) during the lexus golden opportunity sales event, you can do both. it's an opportunity today. it's a lexus forever. special lease offers now available on the 2009 es 350. ruth madoff was sued for $40 million trying to recover more funds from his wife. she reached a settlement now where by she will have to tell the judge in this case and what all of her expenses are over $100. >> they will be busy. almost everything is over $100. >> in new york city for pete's sake. you go to the grocery store, you have to tell them. >> how the mighty have fallen. gosh. she is finally getting her hair colored for $500 every two weeks. >> $100 and she has to declare it. >> that are will cause a lot of red tape. >> we will see. we will see if the markets continue higher into the close as it did yesterday. so far, so good. >> i will see you in about a week or so. i'm going on a vacation. a travel jo

ruth madoff, the bookkeeper, close to bernie, there may not be e-mail traffic to connect her but there going to be a lot of witnesses coming out saying we believe ruth knew what was going on. i wouldn't want to have the last name of madoff. >> where is the next ponzi scheme? >> i'm seeing them pop up all over the country. agape in long eye rand, nick cosmo stealing $400 million from teachers, firemen, policemen. we're looking at the bank's involvement. in that case it is bank of america. we're seeing banks involved with ponzi schemes all over the country. peter dawson, an investment advisor in island. we're looking at banks. i'm getting calls from florida, california and everywhere else about hon zi schemes and people believing that a bank is involved. >> jake, always a pleasure to have you. >>> final trade right after this. welcome to the now network. population: 49 million. right now 1.2 million people are on sprint mobile broadband. 31 are streaming a sales conference from the road. eight are wearing bathrobes. two... less. - 154 people are tracking shipments on a train. - ( train w

. >>> ruth madoff has reached an agreement. under the deal, she will provide a monthly accounting of her income and payments and accounts for any expense over a hundred dollars. and a new 2010 election battle is taking shape today. pennsylvania congressman and former navy admiral says he is taking on senator arlen specter. he threw his hat in the ring this morning and sestak is hitting the ground running and five campaign stops planned for today and tomorrow and already visited each of pennsylvania's 67 counties. not bad. >>> beware of the recession. that's the warning being issued to president obama as we enter the august break. the month is traditionally not been kind to past presidents. some of may remember hurricane katrina and russian coup of 1991. andy card joins me. good to see you again. >> good to be with us. thanks for having me on. >> now, mort and i were talking a little bit about what you shared with me last night. i was fascinated by it. you were saying that the august recess, while we all may be expecting it will

you are probably seeing prices higher and higher, not too bad relatively speaking at $2.56. >>> ruth madoff wife of convicted ponzi schemer, ralph madoff, agrees that any time she spends more than $100, she will check in with a court-pibted trustee. her lawyer called this totally unjustified, since she gave up her claim to more than $80 million and keeping just $2.5 million. boy, that's like being married. >> did you say that's like being married? >> yeah. >> you have to report where you're spending money. all right. >>> check out the big roadblock in one town yesterday this is not what the cops wanted to see. and persuading the big guy to move on turned out to be a big problem. >>> you are like this close to catching me yawning. probably you too, right? let me wake you up by looking at the morning papers ""the new york times" report it could be decades before laid off workers get back to their old salary levels. people laid off in the '80s are still making 15% to 20% less than they would if they weren't laid off. >>> doctors say that you could get a pneumonia vaccine while waiting for the

> we're learning that the wife of ponzi schemer bernie madoff owes uncle sam a lot of moneyment ruth madoff, and madoff will have to pay up. the new spending agreement allows her to spend money only on her cats and legal bills, as well a reasonable amount of living expenses. i'm not sure what that means for ruth madoff. controversy brewing at a new california espresso drive through. why? because the baristas are bikini clad. this will shock you, more men than women are going to the coffee shop. >> the beach, we're moving the beach closer to the people. >> i know exactly right where that is, i used to live there. you've gone there no doubt? >> bikinis they say is a big part of the business plan and the customers say the coffee is not bad. speaking of attractive women, gizelle b gisele bunchen is carrying hubby's tom brady's baby. the baby bump was air brushed to present her privacy according to the london fog coat campaign. they wanted a classic portrait. is this a classic portrait after woman in a rain coat? >> all i see is a rain coat. >> that's all? >> she's not wearing anything under it,

. >> reporter: so like ruth madoff, the wife of fraud king bernie madoff, michelle fought back againstent to other places, not to me. i know i haven't done anything. >> reporter: a lot of people don't believe you. >> i know. >> reporter: they vilify you. they think you're lying. they think you must have been in on it. >> i don't know what else to do but tell the truth, and that's what i'm doing. >> reporter: did you know he was in trouble with the law? >> no. >> reporter: did you know his business was tanking? >> no. >> reporter: how could she not have known? michelle says because all she could think about back then was her husband's exextramarital affair. >> my mind was occupied with keeping my marriage and family together and making sure my children were okay, because my family was which complete turmoil. i'm michelle schenker, chief financial officer of heritage wealth management. >> reporter: but years earlier, michelle seemed to deal with the firm. she says she simply read from a teleprompter. as you read from the teleprompter from the script he wrote for you did you at any point

the marshal service is looking for real estate brokers owned by bernard and ruth madoff. the forecasters raised outlook for economic growth, but the outlook has worsened. i'm courtney reagan. >>> i know what you are thinking. it's friday and things will wind down. wrong! we are beginning the second hour of "power lunch" and we welcome you for that. the dow has been struggling with a decline so far today. boeing is the biggest loser and coca-cola the only dow component that is higher. the s&p back above 1,000. triple play, the traders will tell you what to look for next week. >> i'm michelle caruso-cabrera. merrill lynch dishing out big bonuses to bring in new talent on executive pay limits for t.a.r.p. banks. are bank ceos and executives paid too much? >> have you heard about the obama tea to cash in on the obama vacation. we will tell you about this on obama beach. here's what else is on the menu. >> here's what's on the menu. a madoff victim dishes and tell us how he met him and he ruined her and her family's life. >> i'm julia boorsten in los angeles. they are teaming

ruth madoff must report any purchases over $100 to the man who is convicting money for the victims. >> trustees trying to get as much money for the victims as possible there. >> exactly. >> thanks, kate. >>> sam, back to you, my friend. >> good morning. we're going to start with one more graphic on clear-air turbulence. this is something, as we pointed out at the top of the show, is difficult for a pilot to see. but there are forecast models to point it out. it's the forecast, every three hours for clear-air turbulence. at clearairturbulence.com. it's the highlight zones of where there will be likely turbulence on the map. 86, 95, 98 degrees. heat going on in the west. phoenix, you're 115. the record today is 116. you're really close in record territory. here is where that's likely to be the regular storm turbulence in the air today. this is strong stuff. indianapolis, kansas city, st. louis. all ripe for big, powerful thunderstorms to develop. all of america's weather in the next half hour. i want to make sure i said that right. it's turbulenceforecast.com. i think i said that right.

. >> you think ruth madoff might be vulnerable here? >> i think she's kind of a lady mcbeth figure. have a crazy figure that either she was the mastermind of it. her father was one of the original fund-raisers for bernie. i talk about that a little in the book. and she's not -- she's not a dumb lady. she's a very smart, smart cookie. >> right. >> she got a college degree in an era when it wasn't common for women to go to college and she was with bernie every step of the way. >> this article was written -- your initial article. what would happen if you had had a million readers of that initial article? the initial article is, what, your investigation was in 2001? >> yes. >> you wrote an article, did it have any impact at all then? >> i certainly hope so. i wish it had more of an impact, i really do. i regret i didn't do a follow-up. but i felt like i said everything there was to say. >> what tipped you off? >> i had a very good source, a guy by the name of ken nakiyama who was a derivative expert at deutsche bank. we were talking about different hedge fund guys that would be worth wr

people have a very hard time feeling sorry for ruth madoff. she is reviled.ork and this almost makes you feel sorry for her, almost makes you think, well, maybe she didn't know anything, she didn't know about this 20-year relationship, maybe she didn't know. this is the first sort of stroke in her column although, again, i think she's for some reason, for many reasons, plays out as this unsympathetic character. >> interesting. and also jonathan capehart i'm looking at another story in the business section, glenn beck losing some advertising for words that he used. do you think we're going to see especially in light of what's happened with the health care debate perhaps maybe a backlash to some of the words being used to try to bring down the bill, whether you agree with it or not. it seems to me that everybody's miss being the point and you ought to let the economy be the other side of the story and yet you've got people using words like this. i know this is pertaining to another topic, the word he used which i'm not even going to repeat, but it looks like it

now only $99.99 steve: anything more than $100, those are the receipts that ruth madoff must report toa monthly basis. she is the wife of imprisoned ponzi schemer bernie madoff. investigators are still hunting down her husband's remaining assets, anything over $100 she has got to tell the court about if she is going to spend it next, $1 million that's how much house weighs and means chairman charlie rangel has paid to lawyers to defend him against a wide ranging investigation that includes ethics charges and possibly misusing funds for trips to the caribbean. and finally 61. that's how many times 86-year-old ella orko has been arrested. most recently for shoplifting and anti-wrinkle creams. that's the news. >> i hit my head on the light above. it broke the light out and was showered in glass. i was lucky though. there were people on there whose faces were cut up. it was terrible. >> one lady, she just came out of her seat and flew over the middle row. hit her head on the wall and landed on her back like this. >> it's so bad. >> it was so scary for you. >> so scared. all the people so s

like this with intimate details of your relationship end up hurting your husband and your son and ruth madoff -- thing that hurts me the most is that i am hurting them to some degree. >> alisyn: why do it? >> well, with my -- it was my responsibility, the money, that was my job and -- in our marriage and after this happened, i started -- i had the feeling, a weight of guilt, responsibility, and i just didn't know what to do with myself. i was at a loss of what to do. and i didn't have jewelry and art work to sell and we sold our home of 20 years and still had mortgage and bills and the only thing i could think of selling was my story. that i thought was unique and telling. and, i feel terrible. i mean, really, horrible hurting my husband and my son. but, it is the rest of our lives, i'm speaking about, and hopefully, this can help us put our lives back in order and go on. we -- my husband and i have been married 37 years, this happened 16 years ago and there has been a lot of water over this bridge since then and hopefully he'll be able to forgive me and my son is very loving and very support

i think when you were suggesting family members, what does this mean for bernie madoff's brother, peter, his wife, ruth, there was no mention of their names from the statement today, again, who worked for the company 33 years and last served as cfo. he only mentioned others and did not name any. that's something we have to wait and see. >> how does this play out? he's cuffed and gone to the poky, what's the next step in your view? . >> reporter: interesting the judge said he rejected the bail without prejudice. that means if the prosecution and defense came up with another bail agreement the judge would find more fitting, possibly mr. dipascali could be removed and allowed to stay, i guess you could say under house arrest or whatever new terms until he is sentenced. for now, we wait for sentencing for him from here on in. >> presumably the prosecutors are all over this guy, right? >> reporter: the prosecutors are over him. they have an interest getting him to cooperate and have an interest maybe putting together a new bail agreement if it's easier for him to cooperate outside the jail agreement. they'v

madoff's wife, ruth, said she knew nothing of their relationship. she had no comment.in, on the other hand, is ready to talk. >> if he's watching this, hi, bernie. i have a lot to say. >> now is the time to say it. the book is called "madoff's other secret, love, money, bernie and me." thank you for joining us. >> thank you, chris. >> to understand the span of the relationship. you met in 1988. >> uh-huh. >> there was a flirtation. a friendship. it developed into an intimate romantic affair, for a year and a half. explain to me, 21 years. but only a year and a half with that kind of intimacy. why? >> for a number of reasons. i didn't like being second. i didn't like playing the back room type of person. i think with bernie, he really got into it more emotionally than he expected to. i think he expected it to be something that he experienced in the past. and i think he loved me. and was very afraid of that type of connection. and that's where it was at. it was time to end it. >> writing the book. what motivated the decision? obviously, it would have implicatioions for y