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Attorney Asks Judge Not To Disproportionately Punish 71-Year-Old Ponzi Scheme Operator
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- People with 2 ounces of pot get more than twelve years. And niko - yes - we need a way to follow the money to the Camans and Switzerland and get it back to duped investors.
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- How is 12 years fair? Look at all the lives he has ruined! Some of these victims are too old to recoupe their loses! I think 100 years would be very fair, better yet he needs to pay these people back.
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- send his lawyer to jail with him for "life"
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- [This is a "crime" of greed, and greed is generated by societal mores, nothing more. No one person therefore is guilty. ]
nonsense. there's more than one guilty party here ... that will include mr. madoff and anyone knowingly contributing to his scam ... for which there appears to be many candidates.
anyone guilty of this level of fraud should first be seperated from the very thing they felt so compelled to lie and cheat about in the first place ... all their assets. they should then be banned for life from this industry so even if they thought to do it again they couldn't, and they should serve a number of years in a hard core prison for each person they defrauded.
[Why not allow the man to take care of his family, live a quiet life in retirement and perhaps try to teach others about where we and he went wrong.]
because he's a sociopath ... he knows no guilt ... and doesn't care a bit about anyone but himself. he should be isolated from others so that he cannot apply his insidious world view to any other guiltless actions he might take in what little of his life he has left.
the only place he'd believe he went wrong is to get caught ... and likely blame it all on others for that happening. - Reply to this comment
- 12 years ... I agree!
12 years for each client screwed. - Reply to this comment
- Our justice system needs to stop differentiating between the so-called white collar criminals and criminals in general...a felon is a felon is a felon...and we can start by scrapping CLUB FED the "minimal security" prisons -- what a joke.
Considering the lives and charities Madoff's fraud has ruined, I think a sentence of 150 years would be too lenient! - Reply to this comment
- What Madoff did was stealing, which destroyed and ruined the lives of countless innocent investors and charitable foundations, which hurt many innocent needy. No sentence would ever be justice for what he did. Madoff's actions contributed to tipping economic scales. Madoff needs to get life without parole and then placed in solitary confinement. All of those part of this heinous crime should get similar sentences. He showed no mercy and had no regard for his investors which he preyed upon, and the court should show him no mercy, consideration or leniency.
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- Surely you jest, hamiltongrad?
"Tongue in cheek" perhaps? - Reply to this comment
- 12 yrs, Perhaps - make a deal with his attorney, that if Madoff releases the where abouts of the money that was stolen from clients and how it was spent and what can be recovered - since there is way more to this then meets the eye - otherwise life in prison, solitary confinement, no coorespendence. Madoff is a coward and will never man-up so the court needs to throw everything they can at him - this must never happen again and he needs to be made an example of. There are still plenty of corruption going on and the fear of consequences needs to make itself apparent.
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- 12 consecutive lifetime sentences, THEN if he somehow survives that, he pays off everything he owes by banging rocks with hammer at 25 cents an hour.
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