Posted on 03/17/2010 11:34:32 PM PDT by myknowledge
Bernard Madoff, who is serving a 150-year sentence in North Carolina for running a fraud scheme that cost investors billions of dollars, was physically assaulted by another inmate in December, according to three people familiar with the matter.
After the attack, Mr. Madoff, who pleaded guilty a year ago and was sent to a federal prison in Butner, N.C., was moved on Dec. 18 to the prison's low-security medical center for treatment. At the time, the Bureau of Prisons said that rumors of an assault were false and that Mr. Madoff suffered from dizziness and hypertension.
One of his lawyers, Ira Sorkin, added at the time that Mr. Madoff was experiencing high blood pressure and heart palpitations. Mr. Sorkin declined to comment Wednesday on whether his client was beaten, saying, "I don't comment on prison conditions or his family. That has been my policy."
Mr. Madoff was treated for a broken nose, fractured ribs and cuts to his head and face, according to a felon currently at Butner serving time on drug charges who was familiar with his condition at the time. The details of the injuries couldn't be independently verified.
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Oh yeah and the article mentioned he chums up with one of the Mafia bosses there...figures..like attracts like.
But anyone who enters the prison system will find out it is a community all it’s own. Guards bribed to turn the other way and a whole host of payoffs etc. Anything can happen and does...the guards and system simply contain the community but it is there. It’s gangs etc. protect and fight each other pending the sides you take. No prison is immune from being selected for a take down. It is just how the prisons operate.
NOT ENOUGH !
This morning on Laura Ingraham, Lord Mockton was on and commented that during teh production of his sci-fi comedy that claimed the oceans would rise 20' in 10 years, OwlGore purchased on beach front condo near SF for <$1 million. Now that's proof enough he didn;t belive his "docu-comedy".
They should have sent him to Lompoc(low security) federal prison. That facility usually houses “white collar” criminals like Madoff.
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