Madoff's son, 48, dies in cancer battle

Andrew Madoff, the last surviving offspring of convicted Ponzi scheme architect Bernie Madoff, died Wednesday after a long struggle with cancer.

The 48-year-old's death comes after his older brother, Mark Madoff, committed suicide in December 2010.

According to USA Today, both brothers, who worked at the market-making and proprietary trading division of their father's Manhattan-based business, maintained they had no knowledge of their father's crimes. However, prosecution testimony alleges the brothers were present at a meeting where their father and other company executives discussed erasing incriminating emails from a server before handing the data over to the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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