Posted on 08/24/2009 11:34:28 PM PDT by PureSolace
Does convicted Ponzi schemer Bernard L. Madoff have cancer, as two newspapers are reporting, or not, as the U.S. Bureau of Prisons is stating?
Under the headline "Bernie's Cancer Cell," the New York Post reported Monday that Madoff, who was sentenced to 150 years in prison for swindling investors out of as much as $65 billion, wrote: "Bernie Madoff had little to lose by confessing to masterminding the world's biggest Ponzi scheme -- he's dying of cancer, sources told The Post."
The story goes on to say that Madoff, 71, has been telling fellow inmates that he doesn't have long to live.
"He's been taking about 20 pills a day for his cancer," the Post quoted one inmate, anonymously. "He talks about it all the time. He's not doing very well."
(The Post story also had some colorful details, such as reporting that Madoff is participating in American Indian purification rituals and is being recruited by gang members.)
Later in the day, the Wall Street Journal reported that it had confirmed the Post's story.
But then after that, the Bureau of Prisons released the following statement: "While the NY Post story is full of inaccuracies, and we can't specifically address all of them, we can tell you that Bernie Madoff is not terminally ill, and has not been diagnosed with cancer."
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So far I've only seen this posting on Wikipedia:
Breaking news...8/25/09 2:15am EDT..Bernie Madoff dies of cancer..nothing further at this time...
And people posting on Free Republic about George Noory's Coast to Coast opener reporting the same.
Probably another scam, bought his way out
After a couple years in prison, John Gotti dies in prison. Then the Enron guy Kenneth Lay dies of a heart attack so he doesn’t serve any time, and now Madoff. What are the odds they’re all somewhere else living it up after pulling off their scams
Seventy years plus
One Hundred Fifty years makes
Two Twenty years, right?
He will die in jail.
That is what the sentence means.
This is how it works.
Although it is true Madoff has been asking for $5 donations from inmates to fight his cancer.
I’ll bet the stress resulting from the discovery that a financially-sound retirement had gone up in smoke caused a few health problems among his tens of thousands of victims.
The Lockerbie terrorist was freed on compassionate grounds, why not send Bernie home to his family.
/s/
Maybe they can send Madoff to Libya?
[telling fellow inmates that he doesn’t have long to live]
What kind of cancer? My bet he’s saying it’s contagious anal and mouth cancer.
Interesting timing to be sure. Odds are you’re right.
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