mrbose
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Post by mrbose on Jun 30, 2009 2:18:00 GMT -5
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Post by harpman1 on Jun 30, 2009 14:42:22 GMT -5
Ben Stein wrote a while back of an encounter he had with some very well-meaning friends re: an investment opportunity.
As a trained economist, he questioned a fund that would pay whether markets were up or down. Such things are well known to be impossible, so he politely rejected their offer.
My sympathy for folks that lost $$ w/Madoff is limited at best. It was too good to be true, yet they blinded themselves with illogic and hope.
In a way, his victims got exactly what they deserved; and now, so has he.
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Post by capttankona on Jun 30, 2009 15:22:20 GMT -5
I disagree that he got exactly what he deserved. In fact, it was overkill. Murderers get less time. Enron executives, who hurt way more people, got less time. He should have gotten 30 years and it would have left the precidence for such things intact. Now, we have a case that will likely be appealed for the severe penalty alone.
This judge needs to have his head examined. Had he just given Madoff a 30 year sentence, of which he must serve 80% to be elligible for parole, he still would have died behind bars. The sentence was irrational and is being rationalized for the wrong reasons.
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Post by Mink on Jun 30, 2009 22:43:57 GMT -5
I hope the prison he spends the rest of his life, doesn't have amenities........no preferential treatment advised!
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Post by The Avenger on Jul 1, 2009 0:44:15 GMT -5
A more fitting sentence would have been to tie him to a chair in a room and allow all of the people he duped to "pay him a visit" for about 5 minutes each.
Baseball bats available upon request.
While the big shot Hollywood types could probably absorb the losses he sure as hell ruin the financial lives of many lesser known people. Their retirements and children's funds are lost. For that alone Madoff deserves to be kicked in the balls every 15 minutes.
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Post by harpman1 on Jul 1, 2009 14:06:16 GMT -5
Greed drove Madoff and his investors.
They thought they were really getting over on everybody else, by beating the system and bending the rules.
They found out that anything too good to be true, always is.
The wages of elitism will always be paid.
I'm not feeling sorry for very many of them.
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Post by capttankona on Jul 1, 2009 14:40:46 GMT -5
Our rule of law is topsy turvy when murders, child rapists and others get lighter sentences then this pig. But, that is the way it is when leftists and socialist elites own the courts. There is nothing good to say about this man, but the obvious level of hate is what drove this piss poor court decision, not rule of law. What are they going to do, bury him on prison grounds and then move his remains after the 150 years is up? Hell, thirty years would have been a life sentence for this 72 year old man, but we had to show how tough we are on old criminals, but we let the young ones walk the street, even when the get busted for violence.
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Post by mrbose on Jul 1, 2009 15:14:19 GMT -5
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Post by mrbose on Jul 2, 2009 15:39:28 GMT -5
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