Bernie Madoff Hires Prison Consultant

[Robbien]

Source: wpix - New York local News

NEW YORK (WPIX) - It appears disgraced money manager Bernie Madoff is looking to weasel his way out of a maximum 150-year prison term for defrauding thousands of investors in a $65 billion Ponzi scheme.

According to the NY Post, Madoff has apparently hired leading prison consultant Herbert Hoelter to help cut down his prison term.

Hoelter, who has helped out Martha Stewart and Michael Vick, two celebrities that have spent time in the slammer, reportedly got court permission to visit Madoff in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown Manhattan.

Hoelter's Baltimore based firm, the National Center on Institutions and Alternatives, apparently specializes in things like "sentencing advocacy," and "arguments for downward departure from the sentencing guidelines."

Read more: http://www.wpix.com/news/local/wpix-madoff-prison-consultant,0,3647512.story

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Sentencing Advocacy, a service for rich criminals. As if the justice system wasn't imbalanced enough in their favor.

[Aviation Pro]

1. The best sentence a judge could have handed down to Madoff...

...would have been to strip him of every possession he, his immediate family, his distant family, his business 'associates,' and so on have and turn him loose.

I would give him 24 hours before he would be disappeared.

[mucifer]

2. a sentence in a supermax prison which is what he has is much much much worse.

Isolation sensory deprivation loud noises 24/7. Wealthy people never go to a supermax. This is a very unusual case. He probably will buy his way out of the supermax. That's my guess.

[pattmarty]

3. Hey, I gotta idea.................... Put him in a "regular" prison with the.........

.......general population and see how long he lasts before he becomes somebody's "old housekeeping bitch".

[No Elephants]

4. Why does he still have enough money to hire consultants? Shouldn't he and his wife be penniless?

[customerserviceguy]

5. It's very possible that this shyster

is doing it for nearly nothing, it would really make his market value go up if he could get such a high-profile guilty-as-hell criminal off with only a few years. The money's not in the big names, it's in the you-never-heard-of-thems who get busted with their hands in the cookie jar.

[No Elephants]

9. True.

[santamargarita]

6. I think they should put a pair of panties on him and throw in the general population

:popcorn:

[AngryAmish]

11. ahh, the pro=rape crowd shows up....

[Larry_Levine]

7. I wouldn't help the guy.

Madoff's people contacted me and I blew them off.

Larry Levine
www.wallstreetprisonconsultants.com

[canetoad]

8. This should be interesting nt

[spotbird]

10. There is a rumor

that Madoff is negotiating for a camp. It is the only scenario that makes sense, since he could still be in his apartment with his beautiful wife but for his guilty plea.