From Penthouse to Big House: Inside Madoff's 7.5x8 foot cell

[rollingrock]

Bernard Madoff may be used to life in his luxurious, $7 million town house, but his new Manhattan home is a 7½-by-8 foot cinderblock cell.

Madoff won't have fancy clothes or food in his temporary new home, which has housed mobsters like John "Junior" Gotti and accused terrorists like the blind Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman.

He'll have to trade the sharp, charcoal-gray suit he wore to court Thursday for a baggy brown uniform. He'll get to go outside only once every other day, and outside will be a cage on the roof.

"Some of the guards are gonna go out of their way to make sure he knows he's nobody," said Joe Reddick, who served 16 years in federal prisons up and down the East Coast. "That $50 billion or whatever money he had, is nothing..."


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[LakeSamish706]

1. And way past time as well.... He should have been in there months ago. n/t

[ogneopasno]

2. Boo hoo hoo. I just read Vanity Fair's article about this guy and I have no sympathy for him.

Or a lot of the people he screwed, when it comes to that.

[Laelth]

3. K&R for karma. n/t

:dem:

-Laelth