Report: Bernard Madoff chats up prison-mate Jonathan Pollard
Wall Street Journal: Disgraced financier, convicted spy both serving sentences in Butner, NC facility.
By Haaretz Service Tags: Bernard Madoff Jewish World Israel newsBernard Madoff, who engineered the largest Ponzi scheme in history which bilked investors for some $19 billion, has adjusted to life behind bars by chatting up, among others, prison-mate Jonathan Pollard, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Madoff, who has served five months of a 150-year prison term for masterminding the massive fraud, is believed to have acclimated himself well while assimilating into the Butner, North Carolina correctional facility, the same prison which houses convicted embezzlers, bank robbers, spies, and drug dealers, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.
According to the Journal, Madoff scrubs pots and pans in the prison kitchen and spends his free time playing bocce, chess, and checkers with fellow inmates, a far cry from his previous life in the lap of luxury.
Like all inmates, Madoff wakes up at 6 A.M. and reports for work by 7:30. The jobs in prison include groundskeeper, plumber, or kitchen crew, while salaries range from 12 cents to $1.15 per hour, according to the Journal.
Inmates told the Wall Street Journal that the disgraced financier has gained a following among the prison population.
"To every con artist, he is the godfather, the don," one inmate said. "He looks like the rest of us doing time. He just acts like a normal guy."
Among the infamous occupants in Butner who have been seen communicating with Madoff are Pollard, the former U.S. Navy analyst who admitted to spying for Israel, and the former head of the Colombo crime family, Carmine Persico.
"All things considered, he's OK," Ira Sorkin, Mr. Madoff's lawyer, told the Journal. "He still suffers deeply for what he did."
Madoff told a lawyer who visited him in prison that he has resisted fellow inmates' attempts to procure his signature, for which they could then make a profit by selling it on eBay, the Journal reported.
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Jonathan Pollard, left, and Bernard Madoff. |
| Photo by: (Reuters/AP) |
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Madoff is very happy being in jail and prefers to be in jail otherwise he will be cut into pieces by those who lost all their life savings if he is out of jail.
Similar birds fly together. Both hurt the United States public.
Product of his wife's mastery at marketing. Pollard never hadan interest in religion until it suited him. He was NOT interested in trading information to help Israel regain anything lost--THAT IS TOTAL POST-TRIAL FABRICATION and fantasy marketing of the folk hero image pervayed by "Esther" Pollard,another wannebe. She and POllard have utilaized the vacany of a hero for the American settler right in Israel. They out and out lie about his case and make a great deal of money off his "movement". It is pure B.S.! Pollard is RECORDED as trying to market intelligence material to several foreign nations including PAKISTAN--and he was turned down until he stuck such highly sensitive material in Israel's hands they couldn't say no. This fiction about him doing it FOR Israel is absolutely contrary to allevidence and testimonies and intelligence briefings and diplomatic language. Pollard has made an industry out oflies and THAT is why he will never be released to further damage the US/Israel ties.
If there is a deal for Shalit, don't leave Madoff behind!
Life! We should not pay his expenses in prison.
Nice couple.
those are country clubs not the pen.
Maddof who is a crook, unfortunately however, Pollard will be many more yrs in jail, when Maddof is paroled soon watch and learn US "justice"
I do not get it. What is your point and the relationship between the Minarate and the two criminals?
I do not get it. What is your point and the relationship between the Minarate and the two criminals?
Well, Mr. Pubic, you always find a way to inject the Arab factor in anything here. The two, Maddoff, and Pollard, are big time criminals whom they committed their crimes out of love for greed and thirst for fame. So where is the Arab connection here?
They were chosen to serve together.
Ha, ha , ha
They still do. Not just that but their supporters cannot understand how serving Israel gets you imprisoned when you break the law doing so.
It is too bad that neither Madoff nor Pollard are facing the death penalty behind bars. Not only are they despicable as individuals, but they give all of us Jews a bad name. I'm sure the Arab propagandists will find a way to show that both of these CRIMINALS are part of the Jewish conspiracy to run the world or some other such nonsense. May both of these men rot in jail. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
They thought they God's chosen.