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heryl Weinstein, the high-
profile victim of Bernard
Madoff claiming to have
had an affair with the confessed
swindler, kicked off her book tour on
Aug. 25 with an appearance on ABC's
Good Morning America.
Why would a married woman,
interviewer Chris Cuomo wanted to
know, decide to write a book certain
to cause a stir in her own personal
life? Weinstein responded that as the
person responsible for losing her
family's money with Madoff, she felt
compelled to make things right by
selling the only thing of value that
she has: her story.
"When this happened, the feel-
ings of guilt, responsibility, failure,
became overwhelming. What went
through my mind was, 'How am I
going to get out of this? How am I
going to make this situation better?"'
Weinstein said. "I knew it was going
to be very hard on me. I was going
to take a lot of the
brunt. And I was
willing to do that
because the amount
of responsibil-
ity was, and still is,
really overwhelm-
ing."
Weinstein was
right to think that
her decision to sell
her story would land
her smack in the
center of the Madoff
media circus. In the
process, however,
she also ended up
dragging her former employer back
into the spotlight.
"I certainly hope Mrs. Weinstein
was more discreet about her
investment decisions on behalf of
Hadassah than she was about her sex
life," Madoff's attorney, Ira Sorkin,
said in a statement broadcast to the
ABC morning program's 4 million
viewers.

The cover of Sheryl Weinstein's new
book

Impact On Hadassah
Weinstein, as virtually every media
report on her new book makes
clear, met Madoff and carried on
an alleged 18-month affair with the
investment guru during her tenure
as Hadassah's chief financial officer.
It's not the sort of
branding opportu-
nity Hadassah offi-
cials were looking
for, especially after
months of promot-
ing the message that
the organization had
moved beyond being
a victim of Madoff's
Ponzi scheme.
Weinstein hasn't
worked at Hadassah
for 12 years. And
on Aug. 25, she
reportedly told the
Associated Press that
she did not control investment deci-
sions at the organization. Still, the
book's release has not only reopened
questions about how the Jewish
community's largest membership
organization ended up investing $40
million with Madoff (as Hadassah's
CFO, Weinstein reportedly was
a member of the organization's

Hadassah
was shocked
to learn of its
former CFO's
involvement with
Madoff says its
current president.

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