Bernie Madoff: F*** My Victims

June 9, 2010

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by CNBC.com staff

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Bernard Madoff, the author of the biggest Ponzi scheme in history, told inmates

at the Butner prison where he is serving his 150-year jail sentence that his

victims deserved what happened to them, because they were rich and greedy,

according to an article in New York Magazine.

One evening a fellow prisoner kept asking Madoff about the victims of his US$65

billion scheme and Madoff, angered, said: " F*** my victims. I carried them for

twenty years, and now I'm doing 150 years, " the magazine reported.

Madoff saw his years as the mastermind of the gigantic pyramid scheme as a

" nightmare " and he told investigators that he wished he had been caught six,

eight years before he was, according to the article.

He was past apologizing and created his own version of events in prison, the

magazine wrote.

" People just kept throwing money at me, " Madoff is said to have told a prison

consultant who advised him on how to endure prison life. " Some guy wanted to

invest, and if I said no, the guy said, 'What, I'm not good enough?'? "

Hay, a drug dealer who lived in the same prison unit as Madoff, told New

York Magazine that the swindler shared with him his version of events.

" He told me his side. He took money off of people who were rich and greedy and

wanted more, " Hay, who was released in December, was quoted as saying.

In prison, Madoff is regarded as a success, is admired and has fans, the

magazine wrote.

It quotes Rosso, who serves life in prison, who wrote on a Web site he

founded that Madoff is " a hero. He's arguably the greatest con of all time. "

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