Update. According to CNBC, this story is not true. Probably NYPost looking for some pageviews.
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.”
He’ll probably show up dead someday (because he finally killed himself) and they’ll blame it on the “cancer”.
Or he’ll be released to be with his family like the Lockerbie bomber (thanks, commenter #3!).
#21 Not nice.
This is a forum to discuss controversial topics. The moderators job is to bring those forward, add his/her spices and let us from the left those from the right (the wrong) contribute their 2¢.
As a reward, we shit all over each other, the forum gets clicks and we get to see advertisements. Everyone is happy!!
When I saw Guilherme was a Brazilian, I immediately accepted him because Brazilians are the most beautiful people on earth.
Did we seriously expect a 70 year old dude to live through even a percentage of a 150 year jail sentence? This is categorized as “strange” to you?
The only strange thing to me is that his lawyers didn’t bring this up at his sentencing hearing trying to get him the minimum. I doubt Obama is stupid enough to grant Madoff a pardon, or that an appeals court will revoke the sentence… but I’ve been wrong about Obama before, and who the fuck knows what a federal appeals court will do in any given day.
# 22 Dallas, I agree!
I think DU participants feel DU is off-shoring work like some many big businesses of before.
John Dvorak, your not off-shoring DU work, are you??
Stop the pills! Put a webcam in his cell!
I want to watch him SUFFER and die!
bobbo the perspicacious
I’ve been around long enough to realize I can choose not to put up with the Guilherme Chermans of this world…
except professionally, of course.
I always said I’d never wish that on anyone.
I stand corrected.
Worst part is the government is going to pay for his healthcare. It’s gonna take me a few more years to finish paying off my last hospital stay.
CNBC says the Feds say this is definitely NOT true. But NYPost and WSJ say they have corroboration on the story. So do we believe the News Corp or the Feds? Tough call but I give the benefit of the doubt to the Feds. May just have been a really slow news day.
According to unclefart.squarespace.com, there’s even more to this.
When he dies tell his family and bury him.
Bottom line, this doesn’t do anyone any good.
*It doesn’t return what was taken.
*It doesn’t restore the trust we should have in our government, that it is looking out for us.
*It hasn’t been used as a lesson learned by the government on improving oversight.
*It’s just a wasted life.
#32: “It’s just a wasted life.”
No, Madoff wasted thousands of other peoples’ lives. Now it’s his turn.
He’ll end up on a beach in Tel Aviv in the near future because he’s a special breed of criminal; they all do.