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Madoff 'making desk, door nameplates in jail'

London, July 22 (ANI): Multi-billion dollar fraudster Bernard Madoff has reportedly been carving desk and door nameplates during his 150-year jail sentence.

The 71-year-old Ponzi king, who was found guilty of running the biggest fraud in the Wall Street history, was said to be working in the engraving section from 7am every day.

The shamed financier, who admitted to defrauding thousands of investors of billions of dollars, was allegedly adapting well to life in prison.

"He fits in perfectly. He doesn't have a problem with anybody. Everyone knows who he is," The Telegraph quoted a prison source as telling the New York Post.

The former chairman of the Nasdaq electronic stock exchange ripped pensioners, charities and thousands of people, from aristocrats to Holocaust survivors with his swindle. (ANI)

Bernie Madoff was a bad tipper, says posh resort's staff

New York, February 17 (ANI): Bernie Madoff, who is under house arrest for running a 50-billion-dollar scam, has been dubbed as a one-dollar-guy by staff at a posh Montauk oceanfront resort.The Wall Street fund manager, who was said to be a regular at Gurney's, allegedly held the reputation of being a bad tipper around the hotel spa."He won't be missed. Bernie was strictly a buck-a-towel guy," the New York Post quoted one employee as telling a source.The.....
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