Bernie Madoff, the convicted felon who fleeced $60 billion from investors in an elaborate Ponzi scheme, won't attend the

funeral of his son, Mark, who committed suicide this weekend, Breaking Celebrity News has learned.

"He will not be attending the funeral out of consideration for his daughter-n-law's and grandchildren's privacy," his lawyer, Ira Lee Sorkin, told Breaking Celebrity News 

"He will be conducting a private service on his own, where he is presently incarcerated."

Madoff is serving a 150-year sentence in a federal prison in North Carolina after pleading guilty in March 2009 to carrying out a decades-long fraud.

Sorkin would not comment when asked whether Madoff requested permission to be temporary released to attend funeral services.

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