“I anticipate he’s had a little bout, little bit of a affection problem,” Sorkin told ABC News.
Most adverse to Madoff, according to Sorkin and several inmates who served time with him, is that his wife Ruth chock-full visiting him years ago and none of his grandchildren accept appear to see him either.
He has “regret at what he put his ancestors through,” said Sorkin.
But Madoff has done little to accurate his anguish or affliction to the estimated 20,000 investors in his scheme, abounding of whom absent their activity accumulation in the $64 billion fraud.
Other than a abrupt advertence to his victims during his sentencing hearing, Madoff has spent a lot of his time abaft confined in an accomplishment to adjust his own angel and in fact about-face the accusation to the investors for assured unrealistic allotment which he claims is why he set up his fraud.
“I’m not a abhorrent person,” he told a anchorman for New York magazine, Steve Fishman, in a blast call. “I just accustomed myself to be talked into something and that’s my fault.”
His claims are those of a archetypal sociopath, according to above FBI bent profiler, Brad Garrett, now an ABC News consultant.
“The absolute key with Bernie is he is acutely a being who functions after a conscience,” said Garrett. “Bernie is the affiche adolescent of an anti-social personality.”
In prison, Madoff has been advised with abundant account by added inmates who admired the calibration of his crime, according to John Mancini, an bedfellow at Butner until his absolution in 2010.
“All the inmates gave him a lot added account than a lot of added people,” said Mancini, a above pharmacist, who was bedevilled in 2006 of the actionable sales of affliction medication.
Mancini told ABC News that some inmates in fact approved out Madoff for banking admonition and banal tips.
“A lot of the inmates would amount that if he had a accomplishments in affairs he could advice them,” Mancini said.
Mancini and added inmates said that Madoff was accustomed a asset job in the bastille commissary, affairs bite items to added inmates.
Among his adolescent prisoners was the New York mafia bang-up Carmine Persico, and the Israeli spy Jonathon Pollard, appear from bastille backward endure year.
Madoff and Pollard would appear Jewish casework in the bastille chapel, said Mancini.
"Because I anticipate Bernie in his own way was aggravating to accomplish appropriate of what was wrong," he said.
“He acquainted pain, a lot of pain. I would airing the clue with him about every day and I see tears out of his eyes.”
Madoff was admired by his adolescent inmates as an atonement bent who banned to accuse any of the advisers who formed with him in accustomed out the Ponzi scheme, according to above FBI case abettor Keith Kelly.
“He is absolutely what makes a archetypal inmate, to added prisoners,” said Kelly. “He was the better fraudster in history. And he didn’t accord anybody up. In the bastille society, that’s a actor guy.”
Another bedfellow who served time with Madoff, J.D. Winfield, said Madoff was larboard abandoned by adolescent inmates with the barring of one adventure if Madoff afflicted the approach on the television set to watch 60 Minutes and addition captive slapped him in the face.
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