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BBC News - Bernie Madoff moved to prison hospital

Disgraced Wall Street financier Bernie Madoff has been moved to the medical centre within the prison where he is serving 150 years for fraud.
He was transferred on 18 December, a spokeswoman at the Butner Federal Correctional Complex in the US state of North Carolina confirmed.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Wed Dec 23rd, 2009 at 02:53:14 PM EST

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I feel a plea coming on

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Wed Dec 23rd, 2009 at 04:15:36 PM EST
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Saunders Syndrome no doubt.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Wed Dec 23rd, 2009 at 04:30:41 PM EST
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Exactly

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Wed Dec 23rd, 2009 at 05:16:41 PM EST
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Given the number of wealthy people who would like to make an example of him, he'll live longer behind bars, assuming long life means anything to him now.

I wonder if he can still order out for women?

In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.

by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Wed Dec 23rd, 2009 at 05:51:47 PM EST
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