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Madoff's new friends: mob boss and a spy
Ed Harris21 Oct 2009
Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff shares his prison cell with a drug offender and eats pizza cooked by a child molester.
Lawyer Joseph Cotchett, who represents about a dozen victims of Madoff's massive investment Ponzi scheme, interviewed him at a North Carolina prison and found Madoff "hangs around" with Colombo crime family boss Carmine Persico and convicted spy Jonathan Pollard after swapping his Manhattan penthouse for the lower bunk in a shared cell.
Mr Cotchett interviewed Madoff as part of an ongoing legal action against the fraudster's associates. He has filed legal papers which paint a lurid picture of Madoff's former life and work in an office so rife with cocaine use it was known as "the North Pole".
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Can't wait for the movie.
- Ted, London, 22/10/2009 08:08
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