MOD YORK (AP) -- The eldest son of gry online disgraced capitalist Bernard Madoff hanged himself by a dog leash in his apartment Saturday after two years of "unrelenting arm-twisting" following his forefather's capture in a multibillion-dollar fraud that enveloped the sound family, law enforcement officials and a dearest attorney said.

Mark Madoff was bring about hanging from a ceiling cheep in the living office of his SoHo loft apartment on Saturday, the second anniversary of Madoff's slow in a multibillion-dollar Ponzi exposition that swindled thousands of investors of their zing savings, two law enforcement officials told The Associated Press. His 2-year-old son was sleeping in the next bedroom, the officials said.