Comments on: Madoff Sentence "Legally Suspect And Grossly Unfair"

[Stop_the_crying]

Andy must not have had any money invested with the crook. For what Bernie has done he should be sent to a southern chain gang where a big guy named bubba would be his buddy.

[ghwab1949]

Madoff engaged in conduct far worse than any of the other people cited in the column so it is not surprising that his sentence is worse. If 150 years is high, Judge Chin is not gutless or anything else his sentence is called here. It should stand up on appeal and if it doesn't 100 years will.

[nofoolling]

Madoff volated a sacred trust, he scammed his own, and they were all out for him. The Stock market is a legal ponzi scheme, who ignore other scams daily, as long as they are perpetrated on the general population.

by patriot2381 June 29, 2009 10:37 AM PDT

Of course you are correct, the Stock Market is indeed a legal scam on the public. The Federal Reserve, owned by Rothchild and Rockerfeller, control the market and use it to swindle the little guy trying to make a buck.

You don't think we bailed out JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs, owned by Rothchild and Rockerfeller, for nothing do you?

If you stop and think about it, why would first Bush, and then Obama, support bailing out the obscenely rich?

It's called institutional fascism and our leaders were bought and paid for long ago (1913 to be exact) by the criminals that own the Federal Reserve and all of our country, and about 1/2 the world.

The day JFK was shot he had a bill on his desk to abolish the Federal Reserve.

Go figure.

[nofoolling]

Interesting thought. The stock market as a legal scheme makes perfect sense. The Federal Reserve owned by the Rothchilds and Rockerfellers control the stock market which in turn procuces huge profits for the Federal Reserve, all at the expense of the little guy trying to make a buck.

Legalized robbery.

[steeepe]

The others that Cohen cited should have gotten longer sentences. Perhaps 150 years is exaggerated, but for all practical purposes, 50 years or 150 years has the same import for Madoff.

[nofoolling]

Let me see if I have this straight.

The author of this article thinks the sentence excessive?

I think Madoff should thank his lucky stars the judge didnt leave him at the mercy of his victims, because there wouldn't have been any.

It's just too bad we don't have capital punishment for what this slimeball perpetrated on the innocent and elderly in this country.

A century ago he would of been strung up from the nearest tree.

150 years? I think he got lucky.

[timothyjo]

to the dum a sses who think he can appeal you have no right to appeal when you pled GUILTY and rarely can you appeal for a reduced sentence ! its over but the crying for this guy

[timothyjo]

there are some people like this reporter who will always side with the crook and cannot see the true level of there crime this madoff guy caused deaths, lose of life savings and this reporter thinks sentence was to tough LOL are all reporters STUPID, this one is !! CBS the news twister!

[joe_transit]

I guess Andy did not have his life ruined by Mr. Madoff, maybe his opinion would be different if he had. Just because other people received leniency from lax judges does not make this judge sentence wrong, this judge got it right. I find this article offensive, sensationalism trying to stir controversy by raising a few hairs. If I were to compare Andy to other writers I'd place him on the bottom of a very long list. Andy is grossly ridicules.

[babooph]

All part of the scam to obscure the fact that they can legally keep a wad of the stolen $ ,while many victims are destitute.The propaganda system is showing their complicity with the headline.