Comments on: Madoff Slammed With 150-Year Sentence

Convicted Scam Artist Gets Maximum Sentence; Says He'll Live With "Torment For The Rest Of My Life"

[stuart2021]

I am glad you are posting my post from June 16 about extremists like yourself. Thanks for the free advertising!

[chrobrego-2009]

Rape a child and get six years.

Murder someone in cold blood and get 7-8 years.

Pick the pocket of the rich who control this country and get 150 years.

This sentence really shows who is boss in this country, and it's not the average citizen.

[stuart2021]

It's a message more than anything. A message to younger scammers like Madoff. Watch out the message says. This behavior is a no no.

[mahdeealoo]

Let's see...65 billion dollars divided by 150 years and put on top of that all of the ruined lives and depleted life savings. Is that enough? And his wife walks around with almost 3 million in her pocket book. Hmmmmmmm.

[lloydbest1]

"...This guy takes money from people who had more money than the jokes like us who write on this board and yet here we sit. And I certainly have no sympathy for cry baby millionaires who ?risked? their money for an outrageous amount of returns. The greedy hogs get [deserve to?] be slaughtered...."

Greed is sometimes it's own punishment and I agree the filthy rich and "crybaby" millionaires deserve no more than comtempt and stigmitization but......
Many lower and middle income people, such as you and I (tho'I didn't touch Madoff - "too good to be true") also lost big time. Folks whose employers threw in some or all of their pension monies with Madoff are now without anything for retirement. They may not have contributed but counted on the good faith of the investment industry.
Going broke because "Sh*t happens" as in my example is one thing. Sh*t does, indeed, happen and I am now trying to recover. BUT going broke because of intentional treachery on the part of a psychopathic rip-off artist whom you trusted with your money is another altogether.

See my post immediately previous to yours and you will also see that 150 years, long though it may be, is not anywhere nearly sufficient.

[saturn05]

Believe me I think this guy should be punished harshly, but 150 years. Rapists and murderers don't even get that much.

[apple2pie]

Madoff says he'll live in "torment"...yah..if he had a conscience in the first place he never would have done his thievery. He's just going to be chuckling for all the years he got the best of people. Sadness because you got caught Bernie doesn't count.

[Haw_Haw]

Well I finally had to take the 30 seconds and sign up for THIS site, anyway. I read most of the pinhead opinions, and mine is no different. Well except for the fact that this guy is my hero! Instead of thinking about all the bad things he did, think about all the things he proved! Like how the government doesn?t do its job, that you are indoctrinated from birth and what you believe has nothing to do with what the person who is taking your money believes. Although if he can get you to believe that he believes the same things you do it just makes his job easier. That a persons intelligence is measured by the size of their account, what they drive where they live , who lives where THEY tell them too, etc., and not on their abilities. Although on the surface he had them both, but I have no sympathy for someone who doesn?t know that if it sounds too good to be true it usually is. This guy takes money from people who had more money than the jokes like us who write on this board and yet here we sit. And I certainly have no sympathy for cry baby millionaires who ?risked? their money for an outrageous amount of returns. The greedy hogs get be slaughtered. Don?t forget people BEGGED this guy, BEGGED for him take them on! I think it?s great! A PERFECT sign of the times!!

Everyone wants to blame a president who was elected through an in-direct election and you haven?t a clue. There are people who tell people to build pyramids and there are the weak, useless, numbered pyramid builders.

Signed a piggy who will stay a piggy, and I had hog troughs placed in front of me.

Oh and 150 years, I mean if that?s not a joke within itself I don?t know what is! That guy needs to be picking up
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from the people who DON?T pick up after their dogs, in the hot sun at noon with his bare hands. Just so you don?t think I think he SHOULDN?T be punished on top of? his, ROTFLMFAO, cough CHOKE CHOKE, nope still alive, lol, ONE 00 and fifty, cough cough, year JOKE of a sentence. Ahhhh, sigh o? times!

[lloydbest1]

"...This guy takes money from people who had more money than the jokes like us who write on this board and yet here we sit. And I certainly have no sympathy for cry baby millionaires who ?risked? their money for an outrageous amount of returns. The greedy hogs get [deserve to?] be slaughtered...."

Greed is sometimes it's own punishment and I agree the filthy rich and "crybaby" millionaires deserve no more than comtempt and stigmitization but......
Many lower and middle income people, such as you and I (tho'I didn't touch Madoff - "too good to be true") also lost big time. Folks whose employers threw in some or all of their pension monies with Madoff are now without anything for retirement. They may not have contributed but counted on the good faith of the investment industry.
Going broke because "Sh*t happens" as in my example is one thing. Sh*t does, indeed, happen and I am now trying to recover. BUT going broke because of intentional treachery on the part of a psychopathic rip-off artist whom you trusted with your money is another altogether.

See my post immediately previous to yours and you will also see that 150 years, long though it may be, is not anywhere nearly sufficient.

[lloydbest1]

I posted this on another thread earlier today before the sentence was made public:

"Perhaps we could look outside the box a little. How about this for a sentence:

1. Forfiture of 100 percent of his assets. This means anything even remotely connected to him, including stuff he has put in his wife's name or that of any of his friends or relatives.
2. A fine so stiff that there would be no way on God's earth or under it he could pay it off. I would suggest something in the high hundred billion dollar range. Atonement isn't the goal here but insurance that he would spend the little time he has left under permanent crushing poverty.
3. Severe restrictions on where and how he could live. He should be forced to work at a minimum wage job whose only benefit would be the "privelege" of returning the next day. No insurance, minimal or no medical, no paid vacations. No perks or protection of ANY sort.
4. Since any income gained from his McJob would go to paying off his unpayable debt, his discretionary income would be zero. In fact anything he has left over after taxes, fines, and living expenses would be turned back over to his employer or to the state. He is not to be allowed any asset base whatsoever.
5. He can not be permitted the means to afford any housing accomodations more upscale than a refrigerator box under a bridge. This is not to suggest he must be made homeless but that he can not be allowed to afford even a studio apartment or a room at the "Y". Perhaps renting space in a homeless shelter or a cell in the county jug....
6. He should be denied the ability to afford any material items other than those directly essential for bare survival. Enough food to satisfy a 2000 or so calorie diet, one or two changes of clothes, one pair of shoes, a minimal hygiene kit, essential prescription meds (and he must self finance these), simple bedding, and enough space to turn around in. That's it, not a thing more.
7. Other than the religious observances he is guaranteed by our constitution, he should be denied any spiritual resources in the same manner he is denied material ones. Visits to or from friends, family, the Rabbi or anyone else should be minimal or denied entirely.

150 years in prison? If he has a reasonable assurance he'll have access to food, medical care, recreation and shelter, how is that punishment? I'll agree that even this would be a come-down but considering the magnitude of the crime he doesn't deserve to live that well.
Death? Besides the fact I'm not much of a fan of the death penalty, I don't think killing him will accomplish much. After he's gone he won't give a dam* one way or the other. Given his intention to swindle from the outset and the number of lives he has ruined and indirectly ended, the object here is not so much to rid the world of a dangerous sociopath (however much he is!). The object should be to force an egregious example of one to live under such extreme conditions of grinding material poverty, crushing spiritual indignity and unrelenting misery as to force anyone else considering similar crimes to reconsider another line of work."

[noloyalisti]

SO they go after Madoff who is just the tip of the iceberg in this corrupt joke of a country run for the rich.

Meanwhile, Bushoccio and Cheney and their Crime Family is still on the loose after being the masterminds of the current fascist government, killing millions of people and setting up the 911 terrorist attacks.