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		</div><p>Bernard Madoff has asked for a “compassionate release” from his 150-year prison sentence for fraud, saying he has terminal kidney failure and less than 18 months to live.</p>
<p>Madoff’s attorney filed court papers saying the 81-year-old has end-stage kidney disease and other “chronic, serious medical conditions,” including hypertension and cardiovascular disease.</p>
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<p>“There’s no cure for my type of disease,” Madoff told The Washington Post in a phone interview, expressing remorse for orchestrating the largest Ponzi scheme in history.</p>
<p>After spending more than a decade behind bars, Madoff said his dying wish is to salvage his relationships with his grandchildren.</p>
<blockquote><p>“I’ve served 11 years already and, quite frankly, I’ve suffered through it,” he said.</p></blockquote>
<p>The US Attorney’s Office in Manhattan declined to comment. Prosecutors are expected to file a motion in response to the request in the coming days.</p>
<p>I’ve served 11 years already and, quite frankly, I’ve suffered through it.</p>
<p>Madoff pleaded guilty in 2009 to 11 federal counts in a fraudulent investment scheme involving billions of dollars, admitting he swindled thousands of clients over decades.</p>
<p>The rich and famous were among his victims, as well as people of lesser means who had invested with him unknowingly through feeder funds.</p>
<p>The new court filings say Madoff was admitted in July to the palliative care unit of the federal prison in Butner, North Carolina.</p>
<p>“Madoff’s health has and will continue to deteriorate, and he will require more assistance physically and medically leading up to his death,” attorney Brandon Sample wrote.</p>
<p>A so-called compassionate release would allow Madoff to “receive end-of-life care in the community, which would be more efficient, timely, and less burdensome” on the US Bureau of Prisons, Mr Sample wrote.</p>
<p>The Bureau of Prisons denied Madoff’s request for release in December, according to court papers, saying it would “minimise the severity of his offence”.</p>
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<figure id="attachment_149049" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-149049" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-149049" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/434477E1-5C0D-44F9-A262-2A490DD2B3AC.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="400" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-149049" class="wp-caption-text">Former Worldcom CEO Bernard Ebbers was released from prison in 2019 due to his deteriorating health</figcaption></figure>
<p>The agency lists Madoff’s release date as November 14, 2139.</p>
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<p>Madoff’s motion mentions Scotland’s controversial release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, who was convicted in 2001 of blowing up Pan Am Flight 103 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in 1988, killing 270 people.</p>
<p>Al-Megrahi was freed in 2009 on compassionate grounds and died of cancer in 2012, still protesting his innocence.</p>
<p>The motion also cites the more recent case of Bernard Ebbers, a 78-year-old executive sentenced to 25 years in prison in one of the largest corporate accounting scandals in US history.</p>
<p>A federal judge in Manhattan ordered the former WorldCom chief released due to his deteriorating health, saying he posed no risk to society.</p>
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