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Prisons: Madoff had dizziness, high blood pressure
(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-12-25 10:57
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 In this March 10, 2009 file photo, disgraced financier Bernard Madoff exits Manhattan federal court in New York.?[Agencies] |
BUTNER, N.C.: The federal Bureau of Prisons says dizziness and hypertension were responsible for the hospitalization of Bernard Madoff.
Lawyer Ira Sorkin says Madoff has "had some dizzy spells and some high blood pressure."
Billingsley said Thursday that Madoff was not assaulted at the prison.
Duke University Medical Center earlier said Madoff had been treated there. But spokeswoman Debbe Geiger says the hospital had never had a patient by that name.
Madoff has been imprisoned since March after pleading guilty to fraud and admitting cheating thousands of investors out of billions of dollars.
