CHARLOTTE, N.C., Dec 24 (Reuters) – Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff was hospitalized late last week and treated for facial fractures, broken ribs and a collapsed lung, a Raleigh, North Carolina television station reported on its Web site on Thursday. The injuries, the station reported, citing unidentified sources, were consistent with an assault.
Madoff, 71, was treated at Duke University hospital late last week, and was discharged earlier this week, the station reported. But the hospital where Madoff was reportedly treated denied the report. “There’s been no patient at our hospital with that name,” said Debbe Geiger, a Duke University Medical Center spokeswoman. She declined to comment further.
A Federal Bureau of Prisons spokeswoman declined to comment on the report and Madoff’s lawyer was not immediately available for comment. On Wednesday, the prisons bureau confirmed Madoff had been moved to the prison’s medical facility for undisclosed reasons last week.
Probably tried to swindle someone out of their smokes.
I have no sympathy for Madoff and none for the rest of the scoundrels who manipulate credit markets and plunder corporate and investor accounts in daily ponzi schemes. Prisons are famous for brutal justice – worldwide, Really evil people don’t last long behind bars – remember Dahmer? But it should comfort the moral that there are still more bloody hands outside prison than within.
Wall Street has evolved into a cancer on the US and world financial system thanks to Congressmen eager to line their pockets with payola in exchange for deregulation. One of the thieves’ best friends: Phil Gramm. He ranks up there with Abramov, Pitt, and Sununu for damaging this country’s economy. Speaking of banks, did any investigative reporter ever find out who really offed Alfred Herrhausen? Thanks to Wall Street’s many news agencies, FOX and the Wall Street Journal, investigate journalism is now considered a dangerous liberal activity, but just thought there should be some detailed follow-up after 20 years of omerta.