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Bernie Madoff Asks to Make ‘Dying, Personal Plea’ for Prison Release

SEEKING COMPASSION

The mastermind behind a multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme, who is dying from kidney failure, wants to ask the judge for “compassionate release.”

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