Corrections1 staff
Convicted Ponzi scheme crook Bernard Madoff was involved in a prison-yard fight with another prisoner over the state of the stock market, eyewitnesses say.
The New York Post is reporting that Madoff, 71, got into an escalating argument with another elder inmate about the financial markets that eventually turned physical.
Madoff, who was sentanced to 150 years in the world’s biggest investment fraud, got shoved by the other inmate in the altercation. But Madoff shoved back even harder with both hands causing his attacker to stumble and lose his footing, according to the New York Post.
The stunned attacker then backed off.
The dispute could have landed Madoff in solitary confinement, but despite being seen by 20 inmates no officers witnessed the scene.
But it appears the pair have made up. The following day, the two were seen chatting quietly together.
Madoff is serving his sentence at a prison in North Carolina.