Bernard Madoff who was convicted of running a fraud scheme that cheated investors out of billions of dollars was apparently beaten up in prison. Madoff is serving a 150 year prison term in a federal prison in Butler, North Carolina. According to reports in the US media, Madoff was assaulted by another inmate and was subsequently moved to the prison's low-security medical center for treatment.
Madoff denied he was attacked, but it's not uncommon for prisoners to deny being beaten because they don't want to risk a reputation as a snitch, according to prison experts and prisoner advocates.