Symptoms include: Pain and tenderness in the ball of the foot and the big toe; Swelling and bruising of the ball of the foot and the big toe; Inability to bear weight on the ball of the injured foot; Inability to push off on the big toe; Reduced range of motion in the big toe.
Lawyer Ira Lee Sorkin, who represents Madoff, asked for a 12-year sentence. In a letter to the judge, Sorkin explained that his 71-year-old client has an approximate life expectancy of 13 years and isn't likely to outlive the requested sentence by more than a year.
In an interview last year, he blamed the stress of living with his father's arrest for the relapse. 1  Passed: Andrew Madoff, pictured left on the Today show in 2011 and right in February last year, has died of lymphoma. The 48-year-old trader was the last remaining son of fraudster, Bernie Madoff.