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N.Y. toy fair markets Madoff look-alike doll - Smash-Me Bernie at $99.95
By The Associated Press
Tags: Economics, Bernard Madoff 

Mad at disgraced financier Bernard Madoff? There's a toy just for you.

One of the vendors at this week's Toy Fair is offering the Smash-Me Bernie, a $99.95 Madoff lookalike doll that wears a devil-red suit and carries a pitchfork. It comes with its own hammer - so you can pulverize it.

Phoenix, Arizona-based ModelWorks is behind the caricature Mini-Me figures, which can be customized to look like celebrities or whomever a buyer chooses.
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Madoff was arrested in December after investigators said he confessed to his sons that he had swindled investors of $50 billion in a Ponzi scheme.

The toy fair is open only to the industry and runs through Wednesday.

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