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Rough first holiday season for Bernie Madoff in prison

By Douglas A. Berman

This ABC News report permits an extra little bit of Bernie Madoff schadenfreude this holiday season: Bernie Madoff fell out of bed and suffered facial injuries, according to ABC affiliate WTVD in North Carolina.  The affiliate had initially reported that the convicted Ponzi schemer had facial fractures, broken ribs and a collapsed lung consistent with an assault, but is now reporting he experienced heavy facial bleeding from the fall.  Duke University Medical Center said Madoff had been treated there, according to the Associated Press. Bernie Madoff attorney Ira Sorkin told ABC News that Madoff was admitted to the hospital with dizziness and high blood pressure.

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on December 26, 2009 (boomark / email).