Bernie Madoff Reportedly Gets In First Prison Fight!

The Post has another story about Ponzi king Bernard Madoff's life at the Butner Correctional Complex! Unlike its earlier report that the 71-year-old was making friends with the homosexual inmates, participating in Native American sweat lodge ceremonies, and dying of cancer, this one says Madoff got physical...over the stock market.

According to the Post, Madoff "got into a heated debate over the state of the market with another senior-citizen jailbird. The shouting match got so heated that the inmate pushed Madoff, who shoved back harder with both hands, causing his attacker to stumble. As the attacker tried to stand up straight, Madoff hovered over him red-faced and glaring, eyewitnesses said." Because the other inmate "went chicken and took off" which meant Madoff could get some cred amongst his fellow inmates.

One inmate said, "I didn't think Bernie had it in him. He got the best of him; he was really aggressive, and the other guy was in shock that he fought back," adding that if a guard had seen the scuffle, they would have ended up in the "hole." But it was all better by the next day—apparently the two men had made up.

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By Jen Chung in News on October 13, 2009 9:48 AM

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REALITY CHECK

Interesting, this is from The Onion about six months ago: Hush Falls Over Prison Population As Madoff Stabs Cellmate In Throat

Wza

Should've went with Wu-Tang Financial

http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml?videoId=11887&title=wu-tang-financial

JenChungsBaby

He probably paid the old guy to take a dive so he could gather some prison cred.

Mookie Wilson

What we got here's failure to communicate.

Mr. Shankly

Takin' it off, Boss!

Wza

Madoff's a Blood.

Thought ya knew?

farleft

Soon he'll be a Cripple though.

NannyState

The one who dies with the most cigarettes wins.

hotstepper

bull shit. about 50 scumbag invest bankers got wood over this fluff piece. these madoff prison stories are getting to be like Elvis sightings in late convenience stores.

Joshua

I wonder what the argument was about.

O wait. I don't. Because I don't give a flying fuck about this guy and his crap anymore. Hell. I should steal some money in a grand ponzi scheme. Maybe then I'll get blog posts RE: my jailtime.

Mr Mel

Remember the news footage of Bernie shoving back at a photographer, in front of his apartment building. He's not the type of guy to take abuse from too many people. In this case his peer, whose probably in for stealing only a million or two.

Kojak

"a heated debate over the state of the market"

Wtf kind of prison he is staying at??? They probably have a Bloomberg Terminal in the prison library.