New York Daily News

BERN IN HELL

Madoff has heart attack AND cancer!

- BYDANIEL BEEKMAN and CORKY SIEMASZKO With Dareh Gregorian

NOW MAYBE he’ll do everyone a favor and die. Reviled swindler Bernie Madoff — serving 150 years in jail for his $65 billion Ponzi scheme that ripped off thousands of investors — had a heart attack in December and claims to be suffering stage 4 kidney cancer. “Good,” said Norma Hill, who lost $2 million in Madoff’s scheme.

BERNIE MADOFF just moved a few steps closer to hell.

The convicted Ponzi villain who ripped off thousands of investors for billions of dollars says he suffered a heart attack in December and spent much of the month at the Duke University Medical Center.

Madoff, 75, now back in the prison cell where he belongs, also had a second surprise in his email to CNBC — as if learning that he actually has a heart wasn’t surprise enough.

The fraudster said he was also battling kidney cancer and that it’s stage 4.

“Good,” Madoff victim Norma Hill, 73, who had $2 million stolen from her, told the Daily News on Wednesday. “I don’t wish any ill on people. . . . I don’t like to hear of anybody being sick. But I don’t have any real sympathy for him.”

Hill wasn’t pleased to hear Madoff was treated at a top-notch hospital and doesn’t believe he’s doing hard time at the federal prison in Butner, N.C., where he’s serving a 150-year sentence.

“He’s very well taken care of, I’m sure,” said Hill, who lives in Armonk, Westcheste­r County.

Another victim of the schemer said the damage has already been done.

“I really don’t care. It doesn’t mean anything to me whether he lives or dies. It’s not going to remedy anything we went through,” said Norman Feinberg, 82, of Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.

But his wife, Sondra, 80, had much harsher words.

“I care as much about him as he cared about us,” she said.

Madoff, who pleaded guilty in 2009 to mastermind­ing a $65 billion fraud scheme, told CNBC he was not undergoing dialysis. Stage 4 means Madoff’s cancer may have spread to tissues around the kidney or to other parts of the body, according to cancer experts.

Madoff’s brother, Peter, who helped run the office, is serving a 10-year sentence. His wife, Ruth, was stripped of most of the family assets but not charged with a crime.

One of his two sons — Mark Madoff — committed suicide on Dec. 10, 2010, the two-year anniversar­y of his father’s arrest. The other, Andrew Madoff, is battling cancer. The daughter of a Madoff victim, 78-yearold Phyllis Feiner of Great Neck, L.I., said she would shed no tears for him.

“I think people get what they deserve in the long run,” said Feiner, whose father was ripped off by Madoff.

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