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Prison bureau refutes story that Madoff has cancer

Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff has not been diagnosed with cancer, the Federal Bureau of Prisons said Monday, in response to a report that Madoff had told fellow prison inmates he was dying of the disease.

The New York Post reported Madoff, 71, who since June has been serving a 150-year sentence at a Butner, N.C., federal prison, has been telling inmates he does not have long to live,...

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