Madoff Was Not Attacked, Prison Says

[Nancy Waterman]

Source: BBC

Disgraced US financier Bernard Madoff is being treated in a prison hospital for hypertension and dizziness, a US Bureau of Prisons spokeswoman has said.

Traci Billingsley denied earlier media reports that Madoff was assaulted at a prison in North Carolina.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8430352.stm

[havocmom]

1. Broken facial bones were reported earlier. Now, hypertension?

I smell plastic surgery.

[lpbk2713]

2. Broken ribs and a perforated lung?

If he was dizzy he must have fallen down an elevator shaft or something.

[BrklynLiberal]

3. It was consensual?

[DJ13]

4. Dont tell me

He ran into a door, right?

[DeSwiss]

5. BREAKING: This just in............

Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.....

- h/t to http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2631762&mesg_id=2631762">Serioustan

[MichiganVote]

6. I cannot believe this nonsense was on the nightly news.

What's next? Maddof didn't eat his oatmeal this morning? Fucked up media.

[Psephos]

16. It's on the news because people want to hear it.

News is like french fries, not brussels sprouts. It's what people actually want to eat, not what they "should" eat.

I don't follow the Madoff stuff much, but I'll be damned if I'd ever let someone else who thinks they're smarter than me decide what news I can or can't follow.

[rasputin1952]

18. Oh man...

you mean we actually should eat brussels sprouts...all these years wasted, I thought they were only to be consumed before a long drive in a car that will be sealed because of the weather!...D:

:hi:

[Psephos]

21. Yikes!

Remind me not to drive to Oregon with you! :)

:toast:

[cowcommander]

7. I'm surprised he's still alive

People have been killed and entire nations have gone to war for far less than what that scumbag stole.

[fascisthunter]

10. that's a very valid point

[Kalun D]

8. Surprised

Surprised that Madoff didn't pull a "Ken Lay". A well timed "heart attack", some plastic surgery, and a closed casket funeral and it's off to Fiji. That kind of money will buy you anything.

[fascisthunter]

9. So what did he do to get injured, repeatably run into a wall?!

[jmowreader]

14. He fell down the stairs nine times.

Prison stairs are very dangerous. Or so I have read.

[WVRICK13]

20. No

He fell down nine flights of stairs in a two story prison. LOL

[jmowreader]

23. End over end, correct?

If he's in Butner Low...that's actually a one-story lockup.

[THUNDER HANDS]

11. why would anyone kill him

they STILL haven't figured out where the money went.

[razors edge]

25. Exactly.

And somebody wants to keep it that way.

[alp227]

12. He's facing the consequences of his actions

The reaper is waiting to get him.

[rpannier]

13. being treated in a prison hospital for hypertension and dizziness

brought on by repeated banging of his head on a wall

[SkyDaddy7]

15. He is being treated for hypertension and dizziness...

Brought on by that A$$ WHOOPIN he just got in prison!!

[grahamhgreen]

17. next step - he is sent home for care....

[Frank Cannon]

19. followed by an untimely death and a closed-casket funeral...

then cocktails with Ken Lay in the Maldives.

[grahamhgreen]

24. But of course!

[panzerfaust]

22. He just slipped in the shower

At one point I provided medical care in a prison, and that ways always the explanation given for prisoners who had obviously been beaten.

Beaten either by the guards, or by fellow prisoners, it made no difference - guards and prisoners always protected each other in this circumstance, neither group wanting outsiders intruding into their culture. Oddly, neither did the injured men - I never had one who would admit to me that he had been beaten, though my trustee would usually tell me what had happened - IF I would cut friends of his some slack (say a week of light-duty, a day or two in the infirmary, etc).

[mstinamotorcity]

26. All i want to know is

did he buy his own band-aids or were they furnished by the feds.Because we should really charge him for every stitch,suture,band-aid,gauze,aspirin,cotton ball, shot,water,and all the other things given to the injured in prison of his caliber.

[rocktivity]

27. Well, the hypertension and dizziness could have been CAUSED by an assault

:evilgrin:
rocktivity

[eilen]

28. hypertension and dizziness does not need an admit to Duke

The hospital infirmary can give him stuff to bring down his bp. Don't they have an ekg machine? There are lots of oldsters in prison and they don't exactly have a healthy population.