Comments on: Madoff and Friends /2010/06/14/madoff-and-friends/ Politics + Technology = Nonsense at the Speed of Light Tue, 01 Sep 2026 03:05:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.22 By: Tanstaafl /2010/06/14/madoff-and-friends/#comment-3873 Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:15:36 +0000 /2010/06/14/madoff-and-friends/#comment-3873 Prisonmate: Bernie Madoff talks of stashed $9 billion – NYPOST.com:

Ponzi king Bernard Madoff is telling fellow jailbirds that he secretly funneled $9 billion in swiped funds to three people before he was nabbed, an inmate told The Post.

Madoff says that his partner in crime Frank DiPascali knows who the recipients are — and that he suspects DiPascali is using that information to cut a better deal with the feds, according to the inmate at the medium-security prison in Butner, NC.

“I think it was personal friends,” the inmate said of the recipients of the mega-bucks.

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At Butner, Madoff is known for regularly hanging around with another notorious inmate — Jonathan Pollard, who spied for Israel while working as a civilian intelligence analyst for the US Navy — and former New York pharmacist John Mancini, who was locked up for illegally distributing millions of painkillers.

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Madoff also sometimes chats with Colombo crime-family boss Carmine Persico, who is serving a life sentence at Butner.

“They play boccie” and take walks together, the inmate said.

As with Persico and Pollard, Madoff is one of — if not the most — high-profile inmate at Butner.

“Everybody knows Bernie Madoff,” the inmate said. “Everyone says, ‘Hey, Bernie, how are you doing?’ To a lot of inmates, he’s a god.

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