Madoff Sentenced to 150 Years, Sending Strong Signal (http://www.cnbc.com/id/31610169)

Kudos for this.... What a sick bastard

So what...he is 71, broke, lost everything and now he gets to live out his life all expenses paid? ALL expenses...fod, clothing, electric, medical, dental, etc?

And he did live the good life for MANY years...so how is this gonna hurt him?

Better he be sent to live in the ghetto of flooded out New Orleans...
and let him find a way to make money to pay for rent, food, etc.

So what...he is 71, broke, lost everything and now he gets to live out his life all expenses paid? ALL expenses...fod, clothing, electric, medical, dental, etc?

And he did live the good life for MANY years...so how is this gonna hurt him?

Better he be sent to live in the ghetto of flooded out New Orleans...
and let him find a way to make money to pay for rent, food, etc.

He should be beheaded.

He should be beheaded.

Nah, just put him in a Gen pop prison. I'm sure there are a few people in there that will never get out, who's family he has effected.

Let them show him what it feels like to get royally screwed.

He should be beheaded.


we are in america...:killingme

I thought it was funny when I heard his defense this morning: he should be let out one year before the end of his life expectancy so that he can enjoy life. Couldn't expect much compassion there when that would give him only a couple years, probably, and when he has already had years of enjoyment with other peoples' money.

I thought it was funny when I heard his defense this morning: he should be let out one year before the end of his life expectancy so that he can enjoy life. Couldn't expect much compassion there when that would give him only a couple years, probably, and when he has already had years of enjoyment with other peoples' money.

They ned to take all that bad paper he wrote and shove it down his throat.

How dare he run a GSE without GS!

Why all the venom, the extreme anger, at Madoff?

He didn't force anyone to do anything. He scammed people. He scammed people who had INVESTMENT dollars who sought higher than average returns on their investments. Lying and cheating is bad, so sure, but this guy, who bedazzled people seeking to be bedazzled, is drawing real hatred. Why so intense?

The federal government just broke the law and wiped out far more value in screwing over the Chrysler investors who did everything by the books and above board, not off of some tip they got at a coffee shop.

I don't get it. :shrug:

I'm with Larry on this one. He was good at BS and he promised something that was too good to be true. Accounting 101--even that loud Suzie Orman---is always about diversifying. Obviously, these folks didn't. Yeah, he should go to jail but stop with the woe-is-me about people who were trying to make $$ off something that obviously wasn't a magic potion.

I'm with Larry on this one. He was good at BS and he promised something that was too good to be true. Accounting 101--even that loud Suzie Orman---is always about diversifying. Obviously, these folks didn't. Yeah, he should go to jail but stop with the woe-is-me about people who were trying to make $$ off something that obviously wasn't a magic potion.

What next, snake oil salesmen hung from lamp posts? :lol:

I think the deeper outrage is an institutional one; all he did is what the government does. The outrage needs to be fanned to protect the system.