![Shackled in ankle restraints, Bernard Madoff, at right, walks into the Federal Correctional Complex processing building, July 14, iin Butner, North Carolina. The disgraced financier was sentenced to 150 years in prison for fraud. [Chuck Liddy/Raleigh News Observer/MCT]](http://www.vinnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/madt.jpg "madt")
Butner, NC – In responce to a NY Post report out today, that Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff has told fellow prison inmates that he is dying of cancer, the Federal Bureau of Prisons said the story is inaccurate.
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Madoff, 71, who since June has been serving a 150-year sentence at a North Carolina federal prison, has been telling inmates that he does not have long to live, the Post report said, citing the unofficial and unusual sources.
One inmate at the Butner (North Carolina) Medium Federal Correctional Institution said Madoff was taking “about 20 pills a day” and “not doing very well,” the Post wrote, (and was reported here on VIN News this morning).
But Federal Bureau of Prisons spokeswoman Traci Billingsley said the Post story was inaccurate, but she could neither confirm nor deny details about Madoff’s health. She said the bureau was seeking Madoff’s permission to disclose details about his medical condition.
The Post also reported that various “gangs” at the prison were trying to recruit Madoff, while some inmates regularly cook “sandwich wraps” for him at their cells.
The spokeswoman said inmates are not permitted to prepare food in their cells, though it may be procured in the prison commissary and brought back to the cells.
Madoff pleaded guilty in March to orchestrating a worldwide $65 billion Ponzi scheme over 20 years.
As everyone should know the Post isn’t known for it’s accuracy.
if he is about to die he would not be fighting so hard to get 13 years instead of 150 years.
Maybe he learned the sugya of Bar Kamtza & he’s trying to sneak out in a coffin!
Why would ANYONE believe a word this guys says? Dafkah if he says he is dying – I would assume he is in perfect health.
He probably wants to get out on “compassionate” grounds just like the Lockerbie Bomber got out in Scotland.
I don’t like his chances.
I guess he read the article about the Libian guy in Scotland
maybe he tried to say that he has cancer because they should let him out like the terrorist whom bomed the pan am so hes playing games
next we were going too hear that the Lockerbie bomber is not dying either…maybe madoff thought he could pull a fast one too…get off early due to dying illness….
He’s just trying to get sympathy from his fellow inmates.
I have a feeling he let out this comment coz he’s gonna commit suicide like this people will think he died of cancer.good luck to him. let the god a”z he’s praying to help him.