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Fallen financier Bernard Madoff has plunged from his Manhattan penthouse to the lower bunk of a cell he shares with a drug offender at a federal prison, where he eats pizza cooked by a child molester and hangs around with a mob boss and a convicted spy, according to legal papers filed Tuesday.
Madoff's ENTIRE family should be incarcerated until they cough up information that leads to the whereabouts of all the money that's unaccounted for.
#1 - Wed Oct 21, 2009 7:39 AM EDTHe also should be splashed with a sexy perfume once a week!!!
As greedy as he is you know he has a stash.!
To bad there's more of him, plenty working for the top three.!!!
Madoff's two sons who worked for him and his wife should all go to prison, regardless of there is a stash of money hidden or not.
This guy is does not share a bunk with a drug runner, shower with a convicted rapist and eats pizza served by a child molester.
The guy is in the same type of prison that Martha Steward was in - country club for the rich & famous.
The pizza making child molester's name who serves him is Bubba, he likes boys, and has crisco.
Do ya think Bernie knows what the child molester puts on the pizza Bernie eats? Hey Bernie, I bet that ain't mozzarella. Enjoy it, you bastard.
Long Hair your point is taken. I don't think we really understand privilege - at that social strata where the presence of money and power meet there is a type of brotherhood of commonalities. In many cases they have all gone to prestigious colleges belonged to fraternities or social clubs where even if they don't know each other personally they know who each other is and even if they haven't been to prestigious colleges, the ability to amass fortune is a pass card in to a kind of inner room. There is - or appears to be - an unwritten code "don't get caught" this causes embarrassment but behind the scenes pressure can be brought to bear -"look this guy isn't just some Joe off the street. - "Joe off the street" that's you and me - ergo a better class of criminal. Social activist have been screaming about this for years and it hasn't changed and it's unlikely to change soon - what makes this dangerous - this kind of inner sanctum - is we pay for it ... physically, mentally an spiritually.
(Not as tight as I would like it - but hopefully you get the gist)
Sounds like a fun office to work in!! lol
I quite agree, his family should be incarcerated! Madoff planned everything right down to secreting money in offshore accounts that could be accessed by his family.
Dana L. Stern
Every one of those Wall Street Thieves should be in there right along with him. Maybe they could figure out a way to cheat the other prisoners out of their food.
I honestly believe that there was some kind of conspiracy behind the fact that he was allowed to plead guilty. How many more people would have gone to jail if we had got more information from a trial?
Money, cocaine and sex, has always been the predominate culture on Wall St., anything else is merely for appearances. Madoff's office typifies the office environment at 90% of Wall St. offices, the other 10% are either women employees, or old men who can't get it up anymore. If people only knew what really goes on and the things they say about the "sheep" who they fleece out of their hard earned cash, they would all be dead tomorrow.
WTH? You mean they feed him too?
Wonder how many times Bernie's family visits and brings him a few items for future bribes...oh...don't forget the smuggled caviar! Enjoy your stay at The Crowbar, Bernie baby!
and, BTW, what happened to that story about ol' Bernie dying of cancer????
Was that a 'scheme' too? I think they should remove his junk, just in case!
Ptetty hard life. Lets see, he played on people's ignorance, mislead them, lied, and cheated and got prison. He would be free now if he had just used politics to do the same.
just for starters....I have hunch that was just a ploy to try to keep him out of prison or to get lesser sentence.
If these "salacious" office parties were "laced with cocaine", I'm not buying that he was doing any of the coke.
People that are in their 50s that do coke end up dead. Old people die from coke. Madoff is now 71.
My point being, there's a little creativity presented in this "report".
Every single person involved with madoff including family should be locked up until they talk. The investors deserve to be paid back. This is a disgrace. Shame on all of them I agree with poster #1. There is no reason for people who have benefitted by cheating others to be free. As for madoff, he deserves to be in a regular high security prison in GENERAL POPULATION. Carmine Persico, the murdering garbage he is deserves to go with him. WHY does our society CONTINUE to pamper these thugs???
Funny how seriously we issue sentences and some want even tougher stuff than 150 years when it involves money. The lesson is this, if confroned with murdering someone or stealing someone's money, obviously murdering someone carries a lighter sentence. One crime is 150 years, murder can be 15 years to life or charges can be lowered so you are out in 5 years.
I have no sympathy for Madoff. My sympathy is for our broken down justice system that places a message that money has more value.
I agree he should be punished to the full extent of the law...but...I just cannot help but to feel that many many of our politicians are just as bad , just not so much money at stake. $90,000 found in a freezer, millions not reported to tax people and he is in charge of the tax group. I just want to throw them all into the prision and throw the keps away. But when our politicians get caught their political party protects them(fancy Nancy). she yells for blood unless it is one of her own party, then she turns her head like she doesn't know anything about it.
If you or I did what Charlie Rangle(sp) did, we would ne put into jail very fast. But it will be pushed right out of the news and under the rug. Amazing isn't it? he is the one who did not report Millions in income to HIS tax committee. Fancy Nancy just brushed it off.....We must vote all the present politicians out of office unless there is proof that they are on the up and up.
Ah, topless waitress's and prison pizza, both equally nasty I'm sure. What do you wanna bet Madoff winds up like Tim Robbin's character in "Shawshank Redemption", trading on his financial expertise for favors and privileges, he should be in a Super max prison.
...he eats pizza cooked by a child molester...
This SOB should be cooking his own food.
I think they should cut his nuts off
#2 - Wed Oct 21, 2009 7:48 AM EDThe should have gotten the chair..no life for him ,.
#3 - Wed Oct 21, 2009 7:50 AM EDTYou really do have to feel sorry for this guy as he had it all and now look at it! He is a bum, no doubt, but not sure they need to make it so bad for him.
Come on Doc...that's to quick and easy. The downgrade from what he
is use to has to be a real bummer. I wonder who plays the big spoon!!
#4 - Wed Oct 21, 2009 8:02 AM EDTWith no water on the sponge...
Bernie Madoff ran a scam,ripped people off,got caught,went to court, and is now behind bars.Irregardless of eating prison pizza,a past of topless bar maid bimbos,and cocain--he deserves to be there now.Does my heart go out to Bernie? 50 billion dollars that was ripped off by his scheme denotes a madman that ran out of coverups and elaborate explanations.
#5 - Wed Oct 21, 2009 8:04 AM EDTIn a sense, he is more pathetic than anything else.
I would have liked to live the Bernie Madoff lifestyle for a few years. I just could not rip off people that way so I will remain a common person.
He is not suffering enough for his crimes. He should be in Gitmo getting water boarded every day until he reveals where all of his money went. No mercy for this @!$%#!
I agree with Tom 828294 whereby he states, "I think they should cut his nuts off!"
Not only should they have castrated Madoff, one does not pull off a scam as large as Madoff's by oneself. There is NO way this guy operated alone and I am sure that further investigation will discover a coverup of information that would have implicated several of our prominent career politicians who should have been identified, convicted and then spade or neutered.
#6 - Wed Oct 21, 2009 8:04 AM EDTTopless parties??! Gigidy-Gigidy!!
#7 - Wed Oct 21, 2009 8:14 AM EDTMadoff was the topless one.
;)
Well, he is now...
They called hi office the North Pole. Now he better guard his South from the....Well you know
He should be sent to Maricopa County jail in Arizona, wear pink jump suits, sleep in old military tents on cots. Have Bologna sandwiches for lunch and work the chain gang. I agree his family and all the so called executives of his former corp should be held until that unaccounted for money is. It's a bunch of crap that his wife knew nothing, oh come on! Do we look like a bunch of fools? what woman wouldn't be asking where all the money is coming from? I know my wife would.
#8 - Wed Oct 21, 2009 8:17 AM EDTIs the company he keeps now that much different from the folks he used to hang around with on Wall Street? Or is it just the crimes on Wall street have respectible names like "credit-default swap" and the food outside of prison is a bit better?
Oh, I forgot, the crooks on Wall Street generally don't get punished because they are the foxes managing the hen house. Madoff just happened to "manage" the wrong chicken.
#9 - Wed Oct 21, 2009 8:20 AM EDTSounds like he has everything he needs in jail! Hope that molester is taking good care of him!!
#10 - Wed Oct 21, 2009 8:21 AM EDTI hope the child molester adds some extra "protein" to the meals.
Madoff: "My these scrambled eggs are creamy this morning."
CM: "Thanks. I made them myself."
#11 - Wed Oct 21, 2009 8:24 AM EDTEEEWWW!!!
Freakin' hysterical.
Greed got Madoff and his investors where they are. The investors had to know that this was easy money and therefore suspicious. Madoff simply played on an age old emotion as any good con man does. I don't care about any of them. The government is running the biggest Ponzi Schemes ever..........Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. These are the things we should be worrying about and discussing and acting on.
E.Tavares
#12 - Wed Oct 21, 2009 8:28 AM EDTMadoff should be in jail. But what about the rest of them. This is so offensive to Jews. It is not even transparent. They find one jew and make an nexample out of him. They even mention a jew in the article.
Where in the article does it mention madoff's religion or even the word "jew"??
Are you suggesting we can't imprison anyone Jewish for any wrongdoing or else it's anti-semitic? Are you crying over the fact that the article mentioned a "mob boss" with an Italian last name? Would you like it if Italians (or Catholics) said we can't imprison or write articles about the wrongdoings of Italians/Catholics?
This is exactly what he deserves. He put a lot of other innocent, trusting people out of THEIR homes and THEIR dreams, so I'm glad he's getting a taste of the despair they're feeling. What a jerk. I can't believe he used other people's hard earned money to buy all that crap.
#13 - Wed Oct 21, 2009 8:29 AM EDTHaven't they heard that old proverb If it sounds too good to be true, it probably isn't? They were all greedy! I don't feel sorry for them.
There is an old saying,'You can't cheat an honest man'! The reasoning for this saying is, an honest person will not take advantage of a situation where they would benefit unduly. Those innocent trusting people had just as much larceny in their heart as Madoff did, they knew what he was offering them more than was reasonable. His investors do not have my sympathy, if they are looking for sympathy I suggest they look somewhere between @!$%# and syphilis in the dictionary. They should be in prison for larceny as well.
Madoff will spend the rest of his life in prison, which is good. Unfortuntely, the government should revoke the Madoff family passports. Madoff probably has money hid in foreign banks. It would not bother me to skip out of the USA and spend the rest of my life living in a European country that is not to keen on US extradition request. Especially since I would be living in the lap of wealth.
#14 - Wed Oct 21, 2009 8:35 AM EDTI don't know, folks! This pretty much seals the wife's fate too. I mean, she HAD to have known about the parties. She either looked the other way so she kept her money, OR she was involved. Either way stinks. I say, take all of her money too. Put them all on that ranch in Texas sleeping in tents. Works for me!!
#15 - Wed Oct 21, 2009 8:41 AM EDT
That would be Texas. Life in prison? I hope this
cold-blooded rip off artist lives a very, very
long life!
I have to believe he was not the only one running these scams. I would be willing to bet there are quite a few well known people who have spent a bunch of time and money covering up their own indiscretions since the Madoff story broke. The Madoff story is a microcosm of what is bringing this country down financially. Greed and lack of morals/ethics to put it simply.
#16 - Wed Oct 21, 2009 8:48 AM EDTHope Madoff kept some of the massage lotion. He is going to need it for his next office party.
#17 - Wed Oct 21, 2009 8:48 AM EDTROT...............SCUMBAG
#18 - Wed Oct 21, 2009 8:50 AM EDTHey everyone, these letters are a tad troublesome, wouldn't you agree? Bernie's misdeeds are nowhere near as damaging as the previous adminstrations, nor as widespread. This type of conduct is what man has evolved to. I would say that unfortunately, a great percentage of man, left unchecked like ol Bernie, would do the exact same thing, including some of you.
#19 - Wed Oct 21, 2009 8:51 AM EDTBernie's misdeeds are nowhere near as damaging as the previous adminstrations, nor as widespread.
You forgot to include the present administration - obama certainly has been freely writing checks from the public account with the already negative balance.
the thinker: I believe there is a huge difference. This President is doing his best to help rectify the mess he inherited. Give him time, at least he goes to work daily. The previous guy vacationed 88 out of the first 150 days in office. I can't recall a President inheriting a worse mess, Mr. previous cared only about "his base", damn the results the greed,wars, ruination of the economy, the rich got richer. It's an absolute fact that the richest of our country have had record profits as the rest have suffered. The whole damn bunch should be with Bernie.
Landlocked,
I would pay for Obuma to take more vacation days. Every day he is in office with his croony's Nancy and Harry, he puts this country into a worsening deficit. The dems just can't control themselves. Spend, spend, spend... bigger government, more control.
2.3 trillion dollars come up missing on 9/10/2001 from the Pentagon announced by Rumsfeld himself. Who made money on that? It was all ignored because of 911 taking the news.
Hey LANDLOCKED....What everyone is forgetting is that Pres. ODUMO swore he knew just how to fix the problems when he was running for the Whitehouse. ODUMO is just compounding the money problems. He promised jobs by now and that has gone from bad to worse. I have a feeling that when he gets the runs in ten years, he will blame it on the previous administration. I am getting real tired of this excuse. he is not man enough to admit what he has done is not working. I made a mistake and believed him when he was running for the WH. I voted for him, I was a fool but not again.
What's the point of this story? Nothing has changed. He is still in jail, and there is no compensation for the victims.
Somebody had to hand in a story to get paid!
#20 - Wed Oct 21, 2009 8:52 AM EDTI agree. Don't know what his lawyer was filing for but why does it matter who his cellmate is or who he spends his time with. He is away for the rest of his life.
we should put him in office, he would fit right in, the only difference is; he got caught.
#21 - Wed Oct 21, 2009 8:58 AM EDTPrison life is too good for this Dbag--he should be executed on prime time television and his lifeless body dragged through the streets to serve as a warning to others like him...but, because he still has friends in high places, he'll continue to sponge off of taxpayer dollars...what a frickin' joke...
#22 - Wed Oct 21, 2009 9:03 AM EDTIn a few years he will be free suffering from prostate cancer!
#23 - Wed Oct 21, 2009 9:05 AM EDTHere is a man stripped of all principles but those that serve himself. I take that back, here is a mouse stripped of all principles but those that serve itself. I take that back, here is a demon . . .
#24 - Wed Oct 21, 2009 9:06 AM EDTDorat, I have to agree with you; execute him on National TV; and have every channel show it; just like when the President comes on for a press conference.
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