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 $65 billion, has been telling fellow inmates he does not have much longer to live.
"He's been taking about 20 pills a day for his cancer," said one inmate.
"He talks about it all the time. He's not doing very well."
There's been much speculation as to why Madoff took the entire fall for the scheme -- and rumors of his suffering from pancreatic cancer surfaced many months before he arrived at the Butner, NC, complex in June.
The prisoners did not confirm that's the form of cancer he's suffering.
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Meanwhile, a bare-chested Bernie has been killing time at the prison participating in Native American religious purification ceremonies held at an on-grounds "sweat lodge," other sources said.
He accepted invitations from Native American inmates to join them at their weekly prayer services. The ceremonies involve praying, using heated rocks to induce sweat and smoking from a ceremonial pipe.
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Madoff is also making new friends at the prison complex through another unlikely clique -- the homosexual posse, although the relationships are purely platonic, according to the sources.
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Hmmmm another scam?
Obama “won” like Bernie Madoff attracted investors: by lying about his values, policy and plans. In fact, I’ll make that my tagline.
Bernie has been telling his fellow prisoners “if you give me a cigarette today, I will give you three back next week. Trust me on this.”
Heh, heh, heh.
Too rich!
He’s just one of those guys, who if you hanged him, you’d still feel like hanging him again....
Does he have the same doctor as Michael Jackson was using?
And what if you are the President of the United States and deliberately make this nation take a nose dive?
Soon to be “Madoff, Party of One at the Hell Bistro.”
Wow, that a %$&@*ing shame.
If this story is true, he should have pled not guilty and gone to trial, and then file his appeals in a timely manner. If he dies prior to all his appeals being exhausted, this convictions would have been vacated and his wife would have been able to keep a great deal more of the marital assets.
Gee, color me shocked. He finally ‘confessed’ (let’s not forget, a giant dollar amount of his ill gotten gain helped finance campaigns for dems seeking or seeking to retain office in key states.) Some of us have been saying he’s come forward now (instead of not at all) because ‘news’ of an illness would eventually come out and he desired to protect any who helped him in his deceit. I don’t wish him any ill, if the story is true, but I will find it most irritating if he ‘confessed’ and is sent to jail and then - ‘suddenly’ finds he’s ill and requests release on humanitarian grounds. I’m guessing he’s an excellent chess player and has already thought ahead a few moves...
Suggest he be released into the custody of his former clients.
They should dig up the bastards carcass and hang it in the town square!
May you not suffer long Bernie; we have a shortage of prison cells.
All the more reason to go after his accomplices and their assets. That would be anyone around him who has more than a zero balance of accounts.
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