Legal Commentary

Bernie Madoff Sent to N.C. Prison

By Jeralyn

Bernard Madoff has left MCC Manhattan for Butner, N.C. where he will spend the rest of his life. Butner has medium security and low security facilities as well as a camp and medical facility.

Adelphia Communications founder John Rigas, 84 and his son Timothy are both at the low security facility there. Jonathan Pollard, serving a sentence for spying, is at the medium security prison. And blind sheik Omar Ahmad Rahmad, now 71, is serving his life sentence at the Butner medical facility.

His lawyers had asked for him to be sent to Otisville in NY. Bottom line: Madoff could have done much worse.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on July 13, 2009 (boomark / email).