Evil Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff loves prison and even boasted in a jailhouse letter that he is “quite the celebrity” and is treated like a “Mafia don” behind bars, the Ny Post reports.
“They call me either Uncle Bernie or Mr. Madoff,” Bernie wrote his daughter-in-law -- who had written him, expecting to hear about his “suffering.”
Instead, Madoff told her: “I can’t walk anywhere without someone shouting their greetings and encouragement, to keep my spirit up. It’s really quite sweet, how concerned everyone is about my well-being, including the staff . . . It’s much safer here than walking the streets of New York.”
Madoff told her he was “pumping iron, and had plenty of recreational classes to choose from.” He compared prison to a college campus, with “lovely lawns and trees” and said other inmates treat him with respect and admiration.
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