Judge Ellis will not revoke bail. Bernie to remain under house arrest. The AP reports that restrictions on transferring assets are now part of the bail, mail will be checked, and the apartment will be examined once every two weeks. That, I think we can all agree, are some harsh terms right there.
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Get all medicine out of the chest NOW Ruth!
This is a travesty, jail this jerk!!
He’s adding too much economic activity to the UES hot dog/breakfast cart industry. They couldn’t put him in jail…
This was totally a tactic to scare him into talking. He must have sung this weekend to stay out.
It is outrageous that people have to sell their homes, jewelry, etc. while Bernie is relaxing at home – on THEIR money.
Guy hasn’t made an honest buck in years (if ever) – and yet is still allowed to live off others’ money. No wonder people hate Wall Street. Even I do now and I work there.
Biggest fuckin’ sham that ever walked the face of this earth! How many diamonds were mailed to Judge Ellis, Bernie?
This “economic danger to the community” theory is total crap.
Pretrial incarceration exists for two reasons: flight risk and real danger to the community.
Madoff is going to jail for a long, long time. Whatever he gets will be a life sentence. Instead of wasting our time with these pretrial antics, let’s get him tried and in Federal PMITA prison pronto.
I hope Bernie does try to make a break for it – imagine the compelling television as he drives around the upper east side with news cameras in tow and helicopters overhead – making a break for the Third Avenue bridge.
Haven’t you people seen Escape from NY? It’s not like he’s going to be able to get off the island…
clearly the judge is corrupt as well
What’s wrong with this judge?
I bet Malik Shabazz is apoplectic.
Time to call in The Russians – have them “inspect” the apartment!
He probably gets killed if he goes to jail. Still need more info.
Bubba should be having his way with Bernie in jail right now. shrug
When do they inventory all his physical assets (paintings, antiques, jewelry)? I bet Ruth has them out of Palm Beach and Montauk and in a Westy’s as we speak.
To drudge, didnt read
Good luck mailing-off all those ShamWows now Bernie … (at least he probably has expanded cable to keep him busy).
Let’s see how long this goes before they catch him doing something else stupid.
This is truly unreal … he should be a prison bitch named Thelma by now.
Someone got PAID
LOL. Wow, no matter what the color of money, i.e. blue, green, bloodstained, or method of receipt, i.e. earned or stolen, if it has the right height and width, it will always trump any political/judicial system…
NY is a modern day Sodom and Gomorrah…a microcosm of the Americas…
Annabel Vartanian must be pissed.
Settle down people. He lives at 46th and Lex. That means he’s looking out on Lexington Ave. LEXINGTON AVE! The view from prison has got to beat that…
Yeah clown @17….this crook is still off the hook and stolen money has apparently brought him freedom!
@19, he’s at 64th street between Park and Madison (133 E. 64th). Read news much?
Possible?
-Judge got paid
-He isn’t talking and they need to monitor him for more info/evidence
-They hope he is whacked/suicide
-Judge is incompetent or scared
-The Justice system once again proves to be a big joke
Flashy blue thingies hurt my eyes, didn’t read.
And a hearty welcome back to the DodecaSiren!
Annabel Vartanian must be pissed.
FUCK THE POLICE
I hate this world sometimes/often
You guys are ridiculous. No one got paid. There is no corruption here. This is the LAW. You are innocent until proven guilty…bottom line. Once he does get convicted, he’s going to jail for the rest of his life. Justice served.
hey #23 – a BIG YES to all except point #2, should be: He Isn’t Talking. Period.
@22 133 E. 64th is on the corner of 64th and Lexington.
Try google maps – or go walk past. Aside from the mass of news media, you’ll see the agent (security guy?) in the car with Georgia plates idling out front.
Rather than reading the news from your cube in Charlotte or Jersey City, maybe one day you can take a trip to Manhattan?
Does anyone know anything about his building?
Looks like nothing special. Kind of chintzy for his income.
he lives on Lex Ave & 64th St.
one block away from the F train.
i wonder where Maria Bartiromo lives.
Did Maria Bartiromo eat one of the other MSNBC pundits that I am not aware of?
@31 it’s not too impressive. But in Manhattan it’s hard to judge from the outside – I mean wouldn’t you rather pay up for good views than pay for an expensive building that other people can see?
Still 64th & Lex is not that great of a neighborhood. He’s a couple of blocks up from Bloomingdales and right in the middle of the 59th St. Bridge traffic and gets some of the overflow from the park transverse.
I guess it was close to work – just a ~10 block commute.
Before slaughter a pig needs to be fattened. Let that process occur in the penthouse of 133 East 64th Street.
@28 is correct.
Mr. Sorkin and Daniel J. Horwitz, who represent Mr. Madoff, have argued that jailing him would be unfair and wrong.
Classic
uncle bernie are we still having our channakah party that aunt ruth postponed?
Wouldn’t it cost more taxpayer money to check his mail, examine his apartment, and all that than simply jailing him?
Wait, so to everyone saying he should be in jail and the judge must be corrupt, do you think that applies to all criminal defendants?
Everyone should go to jail before they have their day in court?
When did we become a country of lynch mobbers demanding immediate incarceration before any trial?
Sorkin & Horwitz: nothing more than classic fuckin’ Shysters and traitors to the Jewish Race! Are you also being
double-secret paid in diamonds?
JAIL ‘EM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m54bAfxgYPw
@39 and Bernie won’t pass anything to a visitor
What’s the point of putting someone like this in jail? He’s not dangerous and would just be taking up a much needed jail cell. Just take all his money and sink his yacht.
@44
Thanks for your input. Appreciated.
@40: the average criminal who steals something does not get the option of posting bail and living in a penthouse with his own hired security. He just gets put in jail. Maybe he can come up with bail, maybe not. But he is jailed.
Madoff CONFESSED. It is not like “maybe he’s innocent”. He CONFESSED. To the Feds.
What’s the point of putting someone like this in jail? He’s not dangerous and would just be taking up a much needed jail cell. Just take all his money and sink his yacht.
@44 How forthcoming would you be if you are enjoying the comfort of your home w/ evidence shifting while lawyers build a defense?
Live camera feed outside Bernie’s Apt.
(courtesy Fox News)
http://www.foxbusiness.com/livestream/live.html?chanId=6&openAIR=false
@39 – Cost to the taxpayer is irrelevant in regards to bail.
The court wants as few as possible grounds for appeal here. If he takes a plea, he goes to jail in a leisurely fashion. If he goes to trial, we do not want him ot on bail during the appeal. That’s the wrap.
FREE BERNIE
@32
Bartiromo lives on 62nd and 3rd:
http://dealbreaker.com/2007/04/maria-bartiromo-is-a-closer.php
Know your dealbreaker!
People: Cricfy him! Crucify him!!
Judge Ellis: (washing her hands) “I find no sin in him!”
Bernie: (smiling smugly)
@ 28 & 36 how can you say he is innocent until proven guilty if he has already confessed??
People: Cricfy him! Crucify him!!
Judge Ellis: (washing his hands) “I find no sin in him!”
Bernie: (smiling smugly)
fucking bullshit.
The guy already has one foot in the grave. He needs to get busy and start serving his time before he dies. Otherwise, what is the punishment?
Too Nasdaq, didn’t read.
SONG SHOULD BE SUNG IN TUNE TO 2PAC’s PART ON “CALIFORNIA LOVE”
Out on bail fresh outta jail, UES dreamin
Soon as I stepped on the scene, I hear the SEC screamin
Fiendin for money and my assets
the life of a Midtown playa where charities die while we ride jets
Only in finance where we riot not rally to live and die
In M&A. we wearin Ferragamos not Kenneth Coles (that’s right)
Dressed in Gekkos and bespoke suits and bilk is what we do
Flossin but have caution cause we gotta cook the books
Famous cause we lie on our balance sheet
Let’em recognize from Jerusalem to NY
Double windsor that Hermes tie, it’s Wall Street
So you know the Mad won’t bow down to no man
Do what you do
But I advise you to invest in me too
And don’t worry why my returns never blew
From Turtle Bay to Yorktown
Central Park West and back down
Madoff Securities is where they put they mack down
Give me love!
LOL @ 59
59 = Brilliant.
Comment of the year. It will be tough to beat.
@59 classic!
@ 51 — Please explain just how pre-trial confinement could constitute grounds for reversible error in a trial that hasn’t happened yet?
@59 Righteous!
I am 59 and if anyone knows how to put that shit to music let me know
Does that include e-mail or only his snail junk mail that will get “checked” every day?
And who pays for his ’round the clock security?
What an absolute joke. Putin for SEC chairman!
@59: stop commenting on your own crap.
#28 Except he VIOLATED THE TERMS of his parole.He INTENTIONALLY tried to hide valuable assets when he knew they might be confiscated by the courts to pay back people who lost money because of him. If any of us did this we would be in jail right now.
This only sends the message to other rich people that if they do something illegal, they will be able to stay home in the comfort of their fancy homes having servents provide fancy meals for them while ANYONE else would be stuck in a jail cell.
@59 = tool
@63. Nothing was said about reversible error or any type of error. Out on bail during an appeal on even flimsy grounds has to be avoided.
@ 28 & 36…classic libs/deadbeats, just like ole Bernie. The Gov’t should also provide a shrink to make him feel better. Right?
@65
http://www.jamglue.com/tracks/12455-California-Love-Instrumental
@28- I guess that goes for the guys at Gitmo too?
How does this guy even have the money to post bail? 50 billion bucks he lost, shattered what’s left of the confidence in our financial system and walks around his PH that he shouldn’t even have ownership of. Agreed innocent until proven guilty but there is a reason for “no bail” – i.e. Flight risk or evasion of terms of release. Oj sat in jail for his trial and his crime was against 2 people.
Lets not forget the 2 people who killed themselves. You are an idiot.
@69 i’m doing 69 with your GF now, (lack of) tool she says
all ruthie’s hoping for now is a ken lay and she’s home free.
@59 clearly a former BofA employee. I guess we know why.
the feds better be watching how much mcdonalds gets delivered in and whether the lipitor Rx gets cancelled.
Ruthie’s already home free what with all of the “conditions” she’s medicating herself for. Nothing stands between a doped-up Jewess and her meds!
Bernie breaks out a big, fat doobie tonight – calls Schrenker – “Dude, you see how easy this shit really is”?!!!
@53 – Did you see the money honey at the closing bell today? I could have packed two suits and a week’s worth of cabana wear in the bags under her eyes. Maybe she has her own late night secret “Bernie watch” underway?
this is a fucking joke! US Justice is a pretty one…
miserable madoff cocksucker should have some of this stuff poured into his next rigid sigmoidoscope
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LOL @ 59
unfriggingbelievable
no justice no peace! no justice no peace!
no justice no peace! no justice no peace!
no justice no peace! no justice no peace!
no justice no peace! no justice no peace!
no justice no peace! no justice no peace!
no justice no peace! no justice no peace!
cmon. why isn’t he in jail already?
cmon. why isn’t he in jail already?
cmon. why isn’t he in jail already?
cmon. why isn’t he in jail already?
cmon. why isn’t he in jail already?
cmon. why isn’t he in jail already?
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