{"id":146940,"date":"2020-06-05T03:01:59","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T01:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/06\/05\/bernie-madoff-fails-in-bid-for-compassionate-release-from-prison\/"},"modified":"2020-06-05T03:01:59","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T01:01:59","slug":"bernie-madoff-fails-in-bid-for-compassionate-release-from-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=146940","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Madoff fails in bid for compassionate release from prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 82-year-old convicted fraudster has less than 18 months to live, but judge says he should die in jailA federal judge on Thursday rejected Bernie Madoff\u2019s request to be released early from prison because he was dying of kidney failure, saying the swindler has never fully accepted responsibility for his massive, decades-long Ponzi scheme.Circuit Judge Denny Chin, who called Madoff\u2019s crimes \u201cextraordinarily evil\u201d when imposing a 150-year sentence in June 2009, wrote that while Madoff\u2019s failing health was \u201cmost unfortunate\u201d, compassionate release was unwarranted. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2020\/jun\/05\/bernie-madoff-fails-in-bid-for-compassionate-release-from-prison\" target=\"_blank\">Bernie Madoff fails in bid for compassionate release from prison<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 82-year-old convicted fraudster has less than 18 months to live, but judge says he should die in jailA federal judge on Thursday rejected Bernie Madoff\u2019s request to be released early from prison because he was dying of kidney failure, saying the swindler has never fully accepted responsibility for his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}