NEW YORK — Epic Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff asked a federal judge Wednesday to grant him a “compassionate release” from his 150-year prison sentence, saying he has terminal kidney failure and less than 18 months to live.
Madoff’s attorney filed court papers saying the 81-year-old has end-stage kidney disease and other “chronic, serious medical conditions,” including hypertension and cardiovascular disease.
“There’s no cure for my type of disease,” Madoff told The Washington Post in a phone interview, expressing remorse for orchestrating the largest Ponzi scheme in history.
After spending more than a decade behind bars, Madoff said his dying wish is to salvage his relationships with his grandchildren.
“I’ve served 11 years already,” he said, “and, quite frankly, I’ve suffered through it.”
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan declined to comment. Prosecutors are expected to file a motion in response to the request in the coming days.
Madoff pleaded guilty in 2009 to 11 federal counts in a fraudulent investment scheme involving billions of dollars, admitting he swindled thousands of clients over decades. The rich and famous were among his victims, as well as people of lesser means who had invested with him unknowingly through feeder funds.
The new court filings say Madoff was admitted in July to the palliative care unit of the federal prison in Butner, North Carolina.
“Madoff’s health has and will continue to deteriorate, and he will require more assistance physically and medically leading up to his death,” attorney Brandon Sample wrote.
A so-called compassionate release would allow Madoff to “receive end-of-life care in the community, which would be more efficient, timely, and less burdensome” on the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, Sample wrote.
The Bureau of Prisons denied Madoff’s request for release in December, according to court papers, saying it would “minimize the severity of his offense.” The agency lists Madoff’s release date as Nov. 14, 2139.
Madoff’s motion mentions Scotland’s controversial release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, who was convicted in 2001 of blowing up Pan Am Flight 103 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in 1988, killing 270 people. Al-Megrahi was freed in 2009 on compassionate grounds and died of cancer in 2012, still protesting his innocence.
The motion also cites the more recent case of Bernard Ebbers, a 78-year-old executive sentenced to 25 years in prison in one of the largest corporate accounting scandals in U.S. history.
A federal judge in Manhattan ordered the former WorldCom chief released due to his deteriorating health, saying he posed no risk to society.
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They should let that poor guy out so one of the people he screwed could kill that bastard and do it slowly.
If Madoff is released, he will be “miraculously cured” in israel.
The only redeeming thing about Madoff is that he screwed his fellow jews out of their shekels. “Oy Vey!”
i’m gonna bite on this one,if he screwed his fellow jews why will he be cured in israel?
“There is no cure for my disease” says Madoff.
There is also no cure for hundreds of people financially devastated FOR LIFE by his actions. They will be financially imprisoned until their death.
Suck it up fat man.
Yup life is terminal.
If FDR is any example, this massive Ponzi guy will end up with a statue on the mall in DC.
if he’d ripped off goyim, he would’ve.
“There’s no cure for my type of disease,”
– Bernie Madoff
Bernie Madoff IS a disease.
There is a cure, however it requires a hanging, firing squad, gas chamber or electric chair.
Maybe the Bureau of Prisons can move him to the Manhattan facility where Jeff Epstein* was held?
*Epstein did not kill himself.
The Bureau of Prisons should move him to West VA where they moved Whitey Bulger, who was murdered the very next day after his unannounced move. And who in the FBI did Whitey deal with back in Boston, why no other than saint (sarc/) Robert Mueller.
i had forgotten about bulger being killed so quickly–an 89 yo man in a wheelchair being left where other inmates from rival boston gangs could get to him–
who is more evil,the mob or the legal mob?
“how could he do this to his own people?! he was supposed to do that to the goyim, not us!!”
“the largest Ponzi scheme in history”
oh harf, the largest ponzi scheme in world history is the fiat debt dollar, run by the same Babylon The Great (((people))) that demanded bernie be imprisoned.
The largest, non-government-promoted/protected/encouraged ponzi scheme in history.
Social Security is a larger Ponzi scheme which TPTB haven’t acknowledged just yet. They will eventually.
No. Simple mantra is “you do the crime you do the time”. Now shut up and do your time like a fucking man and not a whiny fucking Jew.
Lived like a king for how many years? Was praised and lauded everywhere he went for being a “top dog” on Wall Street, was the toast of the town the whole time he was robbing people blind. Virtue signals that his release would be “less burdensome” on the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, and his attorneys say “he is no risk”. But NOT. ONE. TIME. does the man say, “I fucked up and did wrong.” So, I disagree; due to his own pride, arrogance, or narcissism (or all three), he remains a risk.
Repent or die. You decide.
“expressing remorse for orchestrating the largest Ponzi scheme in history.”
I always thought FDR orchestrated the largest Ponzi scheme in history when he started Social Security. Madoff is a piker compared to the givernment.
We are all dying from the moment we are born.
I hear Whitey Bolger’s prison cell still has a vacancy.
This piece of shit should be hung not let out. Many people are eating dog food in retirement today because he stole their life savings.
Everyone dies, as Bernie well knows. He was responsible for the deaths of his own two sons.
He should consider his imprisonment his just reward and serve his sentence without another word.
This appeal on the grounds of his inevitable demise tells you everything you need to know about his character.
Some men are incapable of redemption.
His two sons could have walked away or better yet turned Bernie in to authorities for being a crook but they didn’t And they were grown men NOT children at the time so I have no sympathy for them frankly
Fuck this guy!! Just die, already! An ABSOLUTE PIECE OF SHIT!!
Sure you can get out…when you are fucking dead and decaying lol.
I would not normally agree with anything Bernie Madoff wants, but I will make an exception. Here is the stark, honest truth. The vast majority of the people he screwed knew perfectly well he was up to no good but they played along because he made lots of money for them, until the music stopped. Most were his fellow Jews. I live near Palm Beach and when Bernie went down the excusive thrift shops were filled to overflowing with loot from his erstwhile clients. Yeah, Madoff is a piece of shit, but he is no worse than the greedy bastards who gave him their money. Both of them cheated us all. Let Madoff go and sun himself in Tel Aviv.
Madoff is not responsible for the biggest Ponzi scheme in history, the federal government is, they should all be jailed.
He has 18 months to live (approximately) let him out 3 days before he draws his last breath.
Boofuckin’hoo, rot in jail you old bastard.
Do his grandchildren want to see him?
To hell with the asshole. Rot in a cell, that is what you deserve. You sure did not have any compassion for the people who’s pension money you stole!
Tough shit bub-you ruined many a life-say hi to Teddy and John when you get there.