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Bernard Madoff, #61727-054, will be heading to the Tar Heel State’s federal prison in Butner. He was given a 150-year prison sentence last month for an elaborate Ponzi scheme that ripped off thousands of victims.
Madoff will be joining several other well-known inmates at Butner. They include Omar Abdel-Rahman, the terrorist known as the “Blind Sheik” who masterminded the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and former Adelphia Commmunications Chief Executive Officer John Rigas.Also incarcerated there: former U.S. Naval Intelligence Analyst and convicted spy for Israel Jonathan Pollard; former Colombo crime family boss Carmine Persico; and Russell Weston, the perpetrator of a 1998 U.S. Capitol shooting that left two U.S. Capitol Police officers dead.
Bernie wanted to serve out his sentence at up in Otisville, NY to be near home, but too bad, so sad for the white collar criminal. The Butner site, which has two medium-security facilities and a low-security prison facility, will provide him with a few creatur comforts — and a new way to earn a living.
From rubbing elbows with millionaires to sharing a prison yard with drug dealers and gangsters, Bernard Madoff’s life is about to change dramatically.Madoff will find himself earning pennies a day sweeping floors, cleaning toilets or manning a stove in the prison kitchen. Like all prisoners, corrections officers will shine a light in his face twice in the middle of the night as part of six or seven daily checks.
Among the amenities Bernie will receive when he arrives in Butner will be a prison-issued hygiene kit containing a matchbook-sized bar of soap (no info whether he has a selection of manly scents to choose from or it’s just Cashmere “signals luxury” Bouquet in the kit), a toothbrush, a comb and a razor. He can call home for at the rate of 25 cents/minute, but if Mrs. Madoff shows up, there aren’t any conjugal visits allowed.
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I’ll never forget watching this manmake a speech just before the sentencing, saying that it was a terrible thing for him to realize he (and his projects, I assume) were failures.
I was like, “Yeah, failures at gypping people and getting away with it…”
He has no remorse. None.
See If You Can Interview HimI’m always fascinated by what makes people like this scalawag tick.
How they can effortlessly and seamlessly bilk people of their entire savings and sleep like babies each night.
Remember, the media reported about all the A-listers Madoff ripped off but in fact, a lot of his victims were regular folks like legal secretaries, fire fighters, et al, who will be working at Home Deport until they’re 80 because their hopes of retirement is hidden in some off shore account on the Cayman Islands or in Switzerland.
Madoff is a monster.
I’ll bet Elie Wiesel and some others would give several cartons of cigsTo other prisoners, to give Bernie a rough time.
They might like tobut I think decent people would try to take enough comfort from his remaining years of imprisonment. I wonder how he will be treated by the other prisoners, will he be admired by some?
lets not go there.please.
Such august company…He’ll especially like Carmine “The Snake” Persico. He’s a charmer.
In a way, I wish he had been sentenced to perpetually be cleaning the toilets of those whose lives he has ruined. That would be poetic justice.
A Good CellmatePut Bernie in with Lord Black of Crossharbour. Throw away the key.