Oh, wonderful. I’m glad we could help him out with that.
Financial swindler Bernard Madoff said that he is happier in prison than he was on the outside because he no longer lives in fear of being arrested and knows he will die in prison, Barbara Walters said on Thursday.
Walters, who spent two hours at the prison with Madoff on October 14, also told “Good Morning America” that Madoff said that while he had contemplated suicide during his early days behind bars but lacked the courage, he never thinks about killing himself now.
Madoff’s wife Ruth said in an interview to be aired on CBS’ “60 Minutes” on Sunday that the couple actually tried to kill themselves by taking pills on Christmas Eve 2008 after the fraud was exposed.
“I don’t know whose idea it was, but we decided to kill ourselves because it was so horrendous what was happening,” Ruth Madoff said of the failed attempt.
So, being a crooked Wall Street tycoon is less pleasant than prison? Good to know.