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| Madoff swaps 'coke-fuelled' high life for prison pizza |
| By guardian.co.uk |
| Published: 10/21/2009 |
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Legal papers reveal spartan life of disgraced US financier who shares cell with mafia boss and convicted spy. Bernard Madoff, the disgraced US financier who carried out one of Wall Street's biggest-ever frauds, has swapped a life of luxury and drug-fuelled excess for a spartan life in prison where his main companions are a mafia boss and a convicted spy, according to legal papers. Madoff, who is serving a 150-year sentence for masterminding the elaborate Ponzi scheme, which cost investors at least $13bn (£8bn), has swapped his vast new York penthouse for the lower bunk of a prison cell, underneath a drug offender, and dines on pizza cooked by a child molester. The insight into the 71-year-old's new life comes in papers filed by Joseph Cotchett, a lawyer who is representing about a dozen of Madoff's thousands of victims. He interviewed Madoff at the Butner federal prison near Raleigh, North Carolina, in July. According to Cotchett, Madoff's main leisure activity is taking walks around the prison's running track at night. Among his companions are Carmine Persico, the convicted boss of the Colombo crime family known in his professional life as "The Snake", and Jonathan Pollard, jailed for life in 1987 for selling military secrets to Israel. Read More. |
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