Died about 30 miles from where I live. I met a lawyer who saw him in prison.
(Derisive snort) I knew our joke of a justice system wouldn’t make him serve all 150 years.
I predict a damn small group of mourners.
I/m sure there are several layers of mourners below them.
The media should not be covering this.
(Not a dig at the OP.)
my crocodile is becoming dehydrated
Why not? “Criminal dies in prison” is good for deterrence.
Then that should be the headline.
It is. The headline linked in the OP does not say “Benie Madoff, noted philanthropist”. The “in prison” part is in the first sentence of the article, if it were in any doubt.
Not to hijack the thread, but I meant that literally. The headline should be “Criminal dies in prison,” or something similarly obscure. His name should not appear, except maybe as a footnote in the main body.
What do you imagine that would achieve? You’re trying to draw some parallel to mass murderers whose names hit the headlines only because of a killing spree. But Bernie Madoff is already a very well known name, a name that everyone associates with the extremes of white collar criminality. What would be achieved by omitting his name to produce a cryptic headline that would mean absolutely nothing to anyone unless they then read the article to discover the name?
Whatever happened to that scumbag Bernie Madoff? He died in prison. That’s something people want to know.
Nobody knows for sure when his scam started , he said 1987 but other people said it went back to the 70s. There was a guy who reported him to the SEC for the scam but they never seemed interested in looking into him until he confessed in 2008.
Drudge has “Madoff in Hell.” Is that better?
In no way meaning to minimize his crimes, but it does amaze me that people could sniff out the bullshit sooner than they ultimately did.
A pyramid of mourners?
Did that joke need an explanation?
This is the guy who knew it was a scam
Madoff had a blue chip reputation, and the analysis which uncovered it was complex. Very few people analyze investment funds’ returns in excruciating detail.
The reason Markopolos uncovered it was not because he was a unique genius, but because the firm he worked for tasked him with figuring out exactly what Madoff was doing so that they could replicate it themselves for their own clients and funds. So he did an analysis of Madoff’s activity which was far more detailed than anyone else had done or was likely to do.
I don’t know enough about the details to know if this is completely accurate, but it’s not complex:
At least as early as 2001, Harry Markopolos discovered that for Madoff’s strategy to be legitimate, he would have had to buy more options on the Chicago Board Options Exchange than actually existed.[77]
No no no, he’s on the outside looking in