Multi-billion dollar fraudster Madoff’s request for soft-touch prison rejected

October 14th, 2009 NORTH CAROLINA - Jailed Ponzi king Bernard Madoff was involved in a prison scuffle with a fellow inmate in North Carolina federal prison following a debate over stock market, and reportedly came out victorious. According to reports, Madoff and the other inmate had a heated debate over the stock market, which turned sour when the former pushed Madoff.

September 18th, 2009 NEW YORK - Multi-billion dollar Poziking Bernard Madoff's Long Island house has been snapped up by an unidentified buyer days for over 8.75 million dollars. According to reports, a spokeswoman for property broker Corcoran Group said that an unidentified buyer or buyers have snapped up the property after the U.S.

July 26th, 2009 NEW YORK - Multi-billion dollar fraudster Bernard Madoff has received an honorary membership of HotPrisonPals.com, a website that helps prisoners hook up with pen pals. The site describes its jailbirds as "the hottest, succulent, juiciest, gorgeous, hunkiest, most muscle-throbbing, adorable, cutest, piece[s] of man meat.

July 24th, 2009 NEW YORK - Multi-billion dollar fraudster Bernard Madoff was a devious liar and cheat since the day he was born, reveals a new book. "Bernie showed his con-man colours as early as high school, when he held an English class enthralled with an oral book report-one that he made up on the spot out of whole cloth," the New York Post quoted Jerry Oppenheimer, author of book "Madoff With the Money," as saying.

July 22nd, 2009 LONDON - 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.

July 16th, 2009 LONDON - A British female prison officer has claimed that she was forced to quit her job for being 'too sexy.' Amitjo Kajla told a tribunal, in Birmingham, that her colleagues at Brinsford Young Offenders Institution insulted her for turning up for work in heavy make-up and in an altered uniform that was criticised as too revealing. Kajla said that she had no option but to quit after she was bullied because of her attractive appearance, reprimanded for being friendly with inmates, and mocked for carrying a handbag.

July 13th, 2009 NEW YORK - Want to vent out your anger on Bernard Madoff personally? Well, you can at least write a mail to the fraudster via MadoffMail.com. The site is offering people a chance to send emails that will be eventually delivered to the scammer in prison.

July 5th, 2009 JERUSALEM - The United States has forced an Israeli company to back out of the multi-billion dollar tender to sell new multi-role fighter jets to the Indian Air Force. Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has been pressurized by the Pentagon to back out of a joint partnership with a Swedish aerospace company, Saab Gripen.

July 1st, 2009 LONDON - Texas billionaire businessman and alleged fraudster, Sir Allen Stanford, is a "serious flight risk" and must stay in jail pending trial, a judge has ruled. The cricket entrepreneur has been charged with seven counts of wire fraud, ten counts of mail fraud and conspiracy to launder money.

June 28th, 2009 ADDIS ABABA - China continues to make inroads into Africa, as it bagged yet another major order for building infrastructure in the East African state of Ethiopia. China's state infrastructure major, China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC) has signed an agreement to construct a new expressway connecting Ethiopia's capital to another city in the centre of the country, Nazreth.

June 8th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - A multi-billion rupee scandal during General Pervez Musharraf's regime has been unearthed in Pakistan. According to The News, a billion-rupee contract was given to an influential contactor on fake bank guarantees for setting up of water filtration plants in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) during Musharraf's regime.

April 14th, 2009 NEW YORK - Bernie Madoff's wife could not get her hair coloured at a local New York salon, courtesy her husband's largest investor fraud which has left her facing a ban from entering the beauty premises. Ruth was prohibited from stepping into Pierre Michel Salon since her presence reminded some customers of Madoff's Ponzi scheme which had taken their husbands for a ride.

March 28th, 2009 LONDON - Disgraced US financier Bernard Madoff used the London arm of his corrupt investment business as his personal "piggy bank", British fraud investigators have claimed. The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) described Madoff Securities International, based in Mayfair, Central London as "a cog in the global washing machine", through which the jailed fraudster had laundered billions of pounds.

March 25th, 2009 NEW YORK - A long time aide of Ponzi king Bernie Madoff went from a middle-class up bringing on Howard Beach to high society Boca Raton while signing up friends and families for her boss's. She's acquired a 2.6 million dollar mansion in a gated community in Manhasset, L.I., and three fancy cars, including a 100,000 dollars Mercedes.

March 14th, 2009 NEW YORK - Ponzi king Bernie Madoff will be going from his plush, multi-million dollar penthouse to a spartan seven-and-a-half-foot by eight foot cell in the Metropolitan Correctional Center. He is likely to be provided with a bare bunk bed, whitewashed cinderblock walls and a shared sink.