(ABC News) Convicted con man Bernard Madoff, who slept on luxury linens and dined at the finest restaurants, is now sleeping in the lower bunk of a two man cell in a federal prison, with a 21-year-old convicted drug dealer for a roommate and a child molester cooking his pizza, according to a new victims’ lawsuit filed by the lone outsider to visit him behind bars.
Which one of these three people do you think we could save some money on incarcerating?
- A man who ripped people off for hundreds of millions of dollars of investments;
- A man who sexually abused children;
- A man who sold drugs to willing customers.
I don’t know what drugs the 21-year-old was selling and who he was selling to, but it is ridiculous to think he belongs in the same cell as Bernie Madoff.
Madoff should feel comfortable among the former drug dealers given his long association with office messengers who provided him and his wife Ruth with large amounts of marijuana over the years, according to accounts by former employee in a new book by ABC’s Brian Ross, “The Madoff Chronicles.”
As the former Madoff staffers told Ross, Bernie liked to let off steam.
“Especially in the early days, a messenger known in the office as Little Rick would be dispatched to Harlem to bring back marijuana for Bernie and others in the office.”
Well, I don’t know if you feel comfortable with a street drug dealer just because you had an in-house drug courier, but whatever. All I know is that tokers like Bernie and Ruth Madoff give the rest of us a bad name.
and we probably all have had a pizza that was made by a child molester at one time or another. Right?
Wealthy people and well-heeled “charities” invested with Madoff because they expected extraordinary returns on investment, year-after-year. No one forced them to invest with him.
Caveat Emptor.
hmmmmm…. so much for the “pot makes you unmotivated” myth….