Madoff Dying of Cancer?

[LuvNewcastle]

Source: FoxNY

NEW YORK - Rumors about Bernard Madoff's state of health are running wild where he is imprisoned.

The NY Post reports that Madoff is dying of pancreatic cancer.

The paper cites inmates at the prison in North Carolina who say the convicted Ponzi schemer takes about 20 pills a day to treat his terminal illness.

"He talks about it all the time. He's doing very well"- The Post quotes an inmate.

Read more: http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/local_news/090824_madoff_dying_of_cancer

[customerserviceguy]

1. I suspected this almost a year ago

Bernie was enough of a con artist to keep this whole thing going for a few more years. I theorized that he got a "you've got six months to a year left to live" diagnosis, and he engineered having his sons turn him in, so that they would be able to keep their share of his ill-gotten goods. It would explain a quick guilty plea, and the sentencing sideshow was just a diversion.

[WriteDown]

3. Clever if true. nt.

[vadawg]

5. yup props to him if this is true, though he could be on the con again

[Bragi]

45. Yep, cancer is so easily faked /nt

[havocmom]

59. LOL It is when we just have Bernie's word for it

[Smarmie Doofus]

4. "Watta story! Everything but the bloodhounds....

... snappin' at his rear end."

[NoQuarter]

33. Oh, Birdie...

...not just a second-rate vaudevillian...

[Smarmie Doofus]

64. I'm sure you must have something to do in the bahth-room, NoQ. nt

[bluestateguy]

6. Susan Atkins (Manson "Family" broad) tried to pull the same shit

The "six months to live" nonsense. That was back in April 2008. It is now August 2009 and she is still alive.

[Bragi]

42. How unfair of her

Have you any special plans to enjoy her death when it comes?

[superconnected]

49. While I won't enjoy her death, I will enjoy her continued incarceration for murder.

[Maine-ah]

65. a friend of mine's husband was given 6-12 months to live. 2 years ago.

lung cancer, I think.

[LuvNewcastle]

8. Yup, we got played.

[Warpy]

16. Then again, he could have pled not guilty

and spent his last 6 months in his cushy apartment during his trial and inevitable appeal.

Who knows?

I do know they'd better start combing all the offshore tax havens for the money he and his lovely family bled off the investors.

[ret5hd]

18. That would not have accomplished his goal...

of having it all pinned on him, getting his fam off scott free.

Not saying his scheme is all going to plan, just saying that that was the goal.

[elehhhhna]

20. it's in Israel and the Feds know it. Betcha.

[Wapsie B]

28. I wouldn't doubt it for a minute.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

25. Shades of Ruby.

[disndat]

27. It is suspicious, like Ken Lay and others

with political connections and/or lots of money like Madoff. On the other hand, the Lockerbie prisoner who was released for health reason may be different. The whole Lockerbie incident had something to do with Mid East politics and C.I.A intrigue aspects, a possible revenge bombing related to the U.S. downing of an plane carrying several hundred passenger over Syria, I vaguely recall. Maybe a DUer may have more info/memory could shed some light.

[Fumesucker]

38. It was the USS Vincennes that shot down an Iranian passenger jet..

And it was over the Persian Gulf..

Supposedly the most sophisticated naval anti aircraft vessel in the US fleet couldn't tell the difference between an airliner and an attack plane.

If it really was a fubar it was a truly massive one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655

Edited to add link..

[disndat]

69. Great, thank you!

I was hoping some smart DUer would come up with the answer, much less an eye-witness to the shooting down of the passenger plane killing about as many as the Lockerbie plane. The U.S.S. Vincennes incident had the fingerprints of the C.I.A. all over it.

[customerserviceguy]

66. I found my original post where I foretold this outcome

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=367&topic_id=16265&mesg_id=16299

I didn't get the details right (thought he would drag the thing out to stay on "penthouse arrest" for a year or more), but I got the motive right.

[bluestateguy]

2. Oh here come the water works

How much taxpayer money will be wasted on his medical care. Make him pay for his own care! And keep him in jail!

[WriteDown]

7. He should be released on compassionate grounds. nt

[bluestateguy]

10. My compassion lies only with his victims

So I fail to see how letting him go is compassionate for his victims. That's my only standard.

[WriteDown]

11. It works in Scotland. nt

[atreides1]

29. But this isn't Scotland. nt

[pattmarty]

14. Yeah, just like the Lockerbie bomber.

[smirkymonkey]

48. ....and sent to Libya

[elleng]

35. Medical CARE?

Nobody cares, and he don't get none.

[Bragi]

43. Why not deny him care?

Then you could wallow in vengeance without worrying about him getting treatment that might ease his suffering.

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. See? - money can't buy everything, Bernie.

[pattmarty]

12. Time to use that ole get out of jail free card.

[havocmom]

13. How come these con artists all have terminal something or other?

Same doctor as Kenny Boy? One wonders... same plastic surgeon? No, I do not put it past any of them.

Sorry, no compassion from me, even if he is really dying. ALL of us are dying. All his victims are gonna die too. All the worker bees in America who have had to shoulder too much of the burden so rich con artists could live so high are dying.

Boo hoo, Bernie, if you date is coming up sooner than we thought.

[Bragi]

44. So you think he's faking cancer?

People is a state of agitated vengeance often display such ignorance.

[superconnected]

54. Do you have a doctors report that says he has it? So far we only have the word of Bernie - a

known liar.

[Bragi]

55. As I noted elsewhere

People worked up into a state of agitated vengeance often display ignorance.

[superconnected]

61. Sounds like projection.

[havocmom]

58. I don't assume anything. You?

:shrug:

[Bragi]

60. Here's what I assume...

Given the horrific nature of the U.S. prison system, and the fondness of many Americans for incarcerating people more and longer than just about any other country in the world, I assume that U.S. prisoners are not released on compassionate grounds simply by declaring themselves to be suffering from cancer or some other illness. I further assume they have to have one or more certified doctors attest that they do indeed have the disease they claim to have before an appeal to compassion would be considered.

[santamargarita]

15. It worked for the Lockerbie Bomber

~

[MissDeeds]

17. I was about to post the same thing n/t

[euphoria12leo]

19. Deal with it Bernie

Take your medicine in jail and I'm not just referring to the medicine the Doctor
prescribed. Besides Bernie is probably safer in jail.

[Xenotime]

21. It couldn't happen to a nicer man.

[doc03]

22. Don't worry he has govment health-care where he is. n/t

[LuvNewcastle]

24. Nice thought, huh?

[Vidar]

23. I hope it's painful.

[Bragi]

41. So you supported torture by the Bushites? /nt

[superconnected]

53. Were you a benefactor to the ponzi scheme?

[Bragi]

56. What a brilliant retort!

Except the word you wanted to use is "beneficiary".

You're welcome!

[superconnected]

62. right, a benefactor would be one who gives aid or help.

So if you were a benefactor, you would have been a sucker to his scheme. I can't argue with that one a bit, since you're bent on defending the man.

[Bragi]

63. Fair enough

Except I have not in any way defended him. I have simply advocated as a healthy human sentiment compassion over vengeance.

[ohio2007]

26. Better let him go also .... Wall St can give him a hero welcome home

[PlanetBev]

30. That would not surprise me

I read in Vanity Fair that the Madoff family is riddled with cancer. Several family members have already had it.

[Bragi]

31. I prefer compassion to vengeance

Me, I'm inclined to be compassionate in these kind of situations, but I can see lots of people here prefer vengeance.

Too bad for them, really. Compassion is a noble human sentiment, while vengeance is toxic and demeaning.

- B

[closeupready]

32. It's sad that so many confuse the concepts of justice and vengeance.

And also the concepts of compassion and simple weakness.

[Bragi]

37. Quite so

Compassion humanizes, vengeance dehumanizes.

- B

[connecticut yankee]

46. Tell that

to the 91-year-old man who has to work in a supermarket because Bernie swindled him out of all his money.

[Bragi]

47. Nice simplistic one-liner

I have great sympathy for Madoff's victims, and have no problem with Madoff being convicted for his crimes.

I don't, however, have a lot of tolerance for people seized with hateful vengeance.

[sabra]

34. Update: Madoff Cancer Story Is 'Inaccurate,' Bureau of Prisons

http://www.cnbc.com/id/32538765

A report that convicted swindler Bernard Madoff is dying of cancer is "inaccurate," a US Bureau of Prisons spokeswoman told CNBC.

Madoff, convicted of swindling $65 billion through the biggest-ever Ponzi scheme, has told fellow prison inmates that he is dying of cancer, the New York Post reported Monday, citing unnamed prison sources.

The spokeswoman for the Bureau of Prisons declined to comment on Madoff's health besides saying the story is inaccurate. She said the bureau is seeking Madoff's permission to disclose his medical condition.

Madoff, 71, who since June has been serving a 150-year sentence at a North Carolina federal prison, has been telling fellow inmates he does not have much longer to live, the Post said, citing the unofficial and unusual sources.

[Bragi]

39. How disappoining for those seized by vengeance /nt

[superconnected]

50. You mean all those people whose lives were ruined - especially the old ones?

[closeupready]

51. And for those of you who are permanently confused about what compassion means.

And what it does NOT mean (hint: it does not mean releasing mass murderers after having served seven years).

[havocmom]

67. And one who attacked people here for their opinions

:rofl:

[deadmessengers]

68. When will we ever learn.

Look at the sources here: Fox and the NYPost.

Remember this rule, people: if a Murdoch "news" outlet tells you that the sun is somewhat likely to rise in the east tomorrow morning, seek independent confirmation from a reliable source before repeating it.

[tomm2thumbs]

36. Send him to Libya - open the door at 10,000 feet see if he wants to go

I am guessing that Charles Manson will be developing 'cancer' any day now...

[Crunchy Frog]

40. I'd prefer to see him live for a long, long time behind bars.

[mnhtnbb]

52. Where's the justice? Kenny boy has a heart attack; Bernie dies from pancreatic cancer.

[dembotoz]

57. let him out on compassionate grounds then give him my health insurance

that will make him suffer....