By Laura Conaway

File this under "unofficial and unusual sources," as Reuters puts it: Bernie Madoff is dying of cancer, the New York Post reports his fellow inmates say. From the NY Post:

Bernie Madoff had little to lose by confessing to masterminding the world's biggest Ponzi scheme -- he's dying of cancer, sources told The Post.

The Post says Madoff's lawyer would neither confirm nor deny reports that his client is terminally ill and taking more than a dozen medications a day. The same jailhouse sources say the Ponzi schemer, who's serving his 150-year sentence in North Carolina, has stripped off his shirt for Native American sweat lodge ceremonies with other prisoners. One anonymous prisoner tells the tabloid Madoff has been making friends with Native Americans and gay prisoners. The former financier is now working at painting fences.

UPDATED: The New York Times reports that prison officials say Madoff doesn't have cancer and isn't terminally ill. (Hat tip to our pals at The Two-Way.)

categories: Players

10:45 - August 24, 2009

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