Senator Asks AG Barr to Deny Early Prison Release for Ponzi Schemers Madoff and Stanford

Former Wall Street financier Bernard Madoff leaves U.S. Federal Court in New York after a hearing on March 10, 2009. Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images

Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) on Monday asked Attorney General William Barr to reject requests from Ponzi schemers Bernie Madoff and R. Allen Stanford for early prison release due to COVID-19.

Thousands of inmates and corrections officers in the country’s prisons have become infected with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) virus, the novel coronavirus that causes the COVID-19 disease.