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"Madoff's $lick Try"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headlines of this New York Post report on Bernie Madoff's hiring of a well-known sentencing consultant.  Here are the details: Mega-fraudster Bernard Madoff has hired a leading prison consultant to help him try to weasel out of a maximum 150-year term for his $65 billion Ponzi scheme. "Mitigation specialist" Herbert Hoelter -- who's helped celebrity jailbirds such as Martha Stewart and Michael Vick -- got court permission to visit Madoff in the Metropolitan Correctional Center, where Bernie is awaiting sentencing on June 29. Hoelter's Baltimore-based firm, the National Center on Institutions and Alternatives -- which has worked with Stewart and Vick -- specializes in "sentencing advocacy," including "arguments for downward departure from the sentencing guidelines...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 31, 2009 (boomark / email).