The Bureau of Prisons is denying reports that Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff had been sent to the hospital after being attacked. According to them, Madoff was sent to a prison hospital with dizziness and hypertensive symptoms.
Earlier media reports suggested that Madoff was assaulted at a prison in North Carolina. Madoff, 71, is serving 150 years for a $65 billion ponzi schemed that defrauded untold numbers of people.
Bernie Madoff is currently housed in a low-security medical center at the prison in North Carolina. He is serving his 150-year sentence in a federal prison in Butner, NC. Madoff was moved to the medical facility Friday from a medium security area of the prison.
Eaerlier, ABC News, citing its WTVD affiliate in North Carolina, reported that Bernie Madoff had facial fractures, broken ribs and a collapsed lung when hospitalized at Duke University Medical Center, not the prison hospital. Meanwhile, however, Ira Sorkin, Madoff's attorney, said his client was had been experiencing high blood pressure and heart palpitations. He said he expected Madoff to return to the medium-security facility eventually.
At the same time Duke University Hospital spokeswoman Debbe Geiger said today in a telephone interview that “We have had no patient of that name.” She couldn’t confirm if the hospital had treated a prisoner from Butner.
Bernard Madoff, once thought of as a mover-and-shaker on Wall Street, is now known as the con man who operated the biggest Ponzi scheme in history. He was found out late last year, when his scheme collapsed as people began withdrawing money during the financial collapse of 2008.
Written by Michael Santo
HULIQ.com
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