Me wonder if shirtless Great White Scalper actually take-em all 20 pain pills. May help explain-em reason why Rat-Backer so popular with-um fellow cons.
Posted on 08/24/2009 5:44:01 AM PDT by Zakeet
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.
Madoff, who is serving 150 years at a North Carolina federal lockup after pleading guilty to swindling more than $65 billion, has been telling fellow inmates he does not have much longer to live.
"He's been taking about 20 pills a day for his cancer," said one inmate.
"He talks about it all the time. He's not doing very well."
There's been much speculation as to why Madoff took the entire fall for the scheme -- and rumors of his suffering from pancreatic cancer surfaced many months before he arrived at the Butner, NC, complex in June.
The prisoners did not confirm that's the form of cancer he's suffering.
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Meanwhile, a bare-chested Bernie has been killing time at the prison participating in Native American religious purification ceremonies held at an on-grounds "sweat lodge," other sources said.
He accepted invitations from Native American inmates to join them at their weekly prayer services. The ceremonies involve praying, using heated rocks to induce sweat and smoking from a ceremonial pipe.
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Madoff is also making new friends at the prison complex through another unlikely clique -- the homosexual posse, although the relationships are purely platonic, according to the sources.
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Me wonder if shirtless Great White Scalper actually take-em all 20 pain pills. May help explain-em reason why Rat-Backer so popular with-um fellow cons.
Release him on “humanitarian” grounds.
I’m sure there would be more than a few volunteers on his death panel!!
Consult Arlen “Scottish Law” Specter!
It use to be that swinging a pick or sledge hammer induced sweat at prisons. And rocks just served as the targets.
Release him to Libya maybe?
Too bad he didn't do everyone a favor and engage in the Japanese purification ceremony of Sepeku instead. Would have saved everyone a lot of time and money.
Boo fricken hoo. Too bad he’s not imprisoned in Scotland.
By all means, the poor man is DYING!!! let him die in peace and with dignity among his beloved family members.</sarc>
This prison sounds like a resort hotel........................ Yeah, lets bring back the ones like in that Paul Muni movie.
Nope, he is a pitiful second fiddle to that charge. FDR's Socialistic Insecurity is nearly 1000 times as big.
You swindle money, you go to jail for life. You take down an airliner and you get out in a few years.
His economic crimes pale in comparison to those of Obama.
Excellent point.
Actually some people can swindle billions and only go to jail for a few years. Take Andy Fastow, the CFO who was the mastermind of the Enron house of cards. He even named his fake companies after family members. His wife got one year and he got what, seven? He’s serving his sentence in a mental health facility, not a prison. It pays to marry someone whose family has a lot of ‘connections’ to judges.
Well then, the compassionate thing would be to release him on compassionate grounds and fly him to Scotland.
next to get a one-way ticket to Libya?
Read on..."they're trying to kiss his butt".
No, that's not what they want to do to his butt.
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Guess who’s paying for those 20 pills and the Native American spa.
I bet there’s been a dramatic increase of converts to Native American religions since smoking was banned in prison. Can’t smoke in the yard but it’s okey dokey if you claim it’s part of your religion. It’s also an advantage having hot rocks as ammo in gang fights.
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