Report: Bernard Madoff "Dying Of Cancer"

2009_08_madoffcancer.jpg The NY Post reports that Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff is "dying of cancer"—at least according to its sources—and that's why he took the blame for the $65 billion fraud that landed him a 150 year prison sentence. One inmate claims, "He's been taking about 20 pills a day for his cancer. He talks about it all the time. He's not doing very well," but Madoff's lawyer or his wife's lawyer haven't commented. Additionally, prison sources say that he's "participating in Native American religious purification ceremonies held at an on-grounds 'sweat lodge'" (while shirtless!), "making new friends at the prison complex through another unlikely clique -- the homosexual posse, although the relationships are purely platonic," and being recruited to various gangs at Butner Correctional Complex. Still, one inmate questioned some of Madoff's thinking, "In prison, you stick to your own kind, but he's doing the exact opposite by hanging with the Indians and [homosexuals] -- so who is going to have his back?"

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lol I find this post comical. Some crack reporting by the Post no doubt, America's best news source.

The Bureau of Prisons has come out saying there are no such health problems bothering Madoff, but he's still reeling from the effects of some late night correctional coctails.

The natives can have him and a player to be named later. It's a good trade.

What's Bernie's own kind?

seriously. i doubt there is a jewish gang in his prison, given their high representation in the lawyerin' industry.

Native Americans and homosexuals - possibly the only two groups that Madoff didn't rip off? And who's to say about the latter one.

Wasn't this an episode of Arrested Development?

I always thought he was a brother of the "Wheredafugowi" tribe. This story only proves it.

That guy's been sending out smoke (and mirrors) signals for years.

Gee whiz, now the taxpayer pay for this treatment.

his rich man's cadillac health insurance didn't tell him he has cancer? so he got the Yugo insurance?

Off to the Federal health club in Springfield, MO for Bernie.

I bet a lot of people have had his "back" already. Get it? ba-bump-bump.

what does this guy think this is pansy europe? where they'll let out a mass murder for cancer?

Didn't White men scam the poor natives enough?

I think this is another scam since he would have been out on bail for chemo treatments. And after he pleaded guilty then moved to a federal medical ward. And what pills do people take for cancer????

So he's laying the groundwork to be moved to a minimum security hospital type jail soon due to his "cancer."

oral chemotherapy for one..

Yeah this is definitely coming out now in response to the Lockerbie bomber being fully released from prison in Scotland because he was "dying of cancer." Bernie now wants the same treatment.

show me the tumor, ima whack it w a golf club.

caner, yeh right...ima pee that

This snake won't stop wriggling until a titanium golf club gets permenantly shoved right up it's arse.

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