Okay, this
New York Post
story gets pretty crazy in its second half:
Meanwhile, a bare-chested Bernie has been killing time at the
prison participating in Native American religious purification
ceremonies held at an on-grounds "sweat lodge," other sources
said. He accepted invitations from Native American inmates
to join them at their weekly prayer services. The ceremonies
involve praying, using heated rocks to induce sweat and smoking
from a ceremonial pipe.
It is unclear whether the 71-year-old Madoff checked out the
ceremony because of health reasons. For centuries, Native
Americans have used sweat lodges to help detoxify the body
mentally, spiritually and physically. Inmates who
participate are usually shirtless, and Madoff was no exception
earlier this month during the first ceremony he attended,
according to the prisoners.
Madoff is also making new friends at the prison complex through
another unlikely clique -- the homosexual posse, although the
relationships are purely platonic, according to the
sources. "In prison, you stick to your own kind, but he's
doing the exact opposite by hanging with the Indians and
[homosexuals] -- so who is going to have his back?" wondered
one jailbird.
Another inmate said various "gangs" at the prison are trying to
recruit Bernie to their crews. Some prisoners are also
bending over backward trying to satisfy his hearty appetite by
regularly cooking sandwich wraps for him back at their
cells. "They're trying to kiss his butt," said one source.
Gay posse frolicking, home(cell) cooked wraps, heat rock
massages, shirtless tokes on the ceremonial peace pipe—it sounds
like Madoff got out of this whole debacle better than many of his
victims! It almost makes me want to start my own Ponzi scheme!
(Almost!)
