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August 24, 2009
Bernie Madoff Reportedly Dying of Cancer
Madoff, who is serving 150 years at a North Carolina federal prison after pleading guilty to swindling more than $65 billion, has been telling fellow inmate he doesn\’t have much longer to live.
Kumbaya, Not Kevorkian, Will Kill Granny
I don’t know which is more dispiriting: the New York Times’ failure to call Betsy McCaughey a liar, or Barack Obama’s failure to call Chuck Grassley a liar. It’s tempting to think of both failures as cowardice, a mortal fear of being branded “liberal.” But ironically it’s liberalism itself that makes them both mistake their cowardice for fair-mindedness.
Prison Official: Madoff isn’t dying of cancer!
This morning the NY Post declared that Bernie Madoff had cancer (headline: Bernie\’s Cancer Cell: Madoff Dying– Unless He Can Cheat Death, Too). But a US Bureau of Prisons spokeswoman is now saying that this is not so: \”While the NY Post story is full of inaccuracies, and we can\’t specifically address all of them, we can tell you that Bernie Madoff is not terminally ill, and has not been diagnosed with cancer.
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