By Adam Nichols
DNAinfo News Editor
MANHATTAN — Ponzi-schemer Bernie Madoff has become a prison hero for swindling $65 billion from his victims — and isn't showing too much sympathy for their loss, according to the New York Post.
When a fellow inmate asked the swindler about the people he stole from, Madoff said, "F--- my victims.
"I carried them for 20 years, and now I'm doing 150 years," reported the Post, which quoted a New York magazine article being published this week.
The article - which quotes former inmates of the federal prison in Butner, NC, where Madoff is serving his 150 year sentence - reports that many prisoners idolize the swindler because of the scale of his theft.
"If I'd lived that well for 70 years, I wouldn't care that that I ended up in prison," one said.
Colleagues, lawyers and inmates told the magazine that Madoff, 71, seems content, that his cellblock is nicknamed "Camp Fluffy" and he spends his time reading John Grisham and Dean Koontz novels.
He also doles out business advice to drug dealers and other criminal entrepreneurs, the Post reported.
