Comments on: Penthouse Arrest For EVERYONE!

By: guest

guest — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 18:23:27 +0000

#30 you are the embarrasment. What about #26′s post was so bad? As to the “you not smart enough” comment–anyone that has ever worked at a law firm can attest to the fact that you don’t have to be a genius to be a successful attorney. Duh!

By: guest

guest — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:26:17 +0000

Just over 30 years ago I met Marc Drier when I came to work as a summer associate at the firm then known as Rosenman, Colin, Freund, Lewis & Cohen. Summer associates split their time between the litigation and the corporate dept (which included everything that wasn’t litigation). Upon graduating NYU in 1979, I joined the firm full time and opted to work exclusively in the corporate department, in part because Marc Drier was a litigator and one of the most abusive, self-serving SOB’s I ever worked for. There is only one thing that matters to Marc Drier and that’s Marc Drier . . . so if he can find a way to flee . . . don’t blink because he’ll be gone.

By: guest

guest — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 23:08:48 +0000

Our justice system sucks. When you stole 400 millions or 50 billions you are sitting pretty. While someone is jailed for taking 50 cents 24 years ago: http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE5133TK20090204

By: guest

guest — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:32:28 +0000

26- you are an embarrassment. That’s a nice little check list you have there, but this isn’t an episode of law and order. Take off your amateur lawyer hat, you aren’t smart enough.

By: guest

guest — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:46:25 +0000

Madoff? House arrest? you don’t see the connection?

By: guest

guest — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:43:54 +0000

25, can you enlighten me as to what Madoff has to do with this story?

By: guest

guest — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:20:49 +0000

@25
When I lived in NY the NYNEX repair manager responsible for Scarsdale/Hartsdale was called “Vinnie Balls” I kid you not. I could never get the seriousness of not having my phones working through to this guy. I kept bursting in to laughter every time I called him.

By: fsrg

fsrg — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:12:36 +0000

Use of Disguises = check
Use and knowledge of false documents = check
Access to $ = check
Unemployed = check
Unmarried = check
Rock solid case = check
Possibility of long incarceration=check
If Marc Drier is not a flight risk – then there is no such thing as a flight risk and the criteria should be removed from the Federal Bail Guidelines.
Rakoff is an embarrassment, as is the entire Federal System.

By: guest

guest — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:08:58 +0000

I don’t care if you ARE Judge Rakoff, 20-22, you owe the world a small smile if you are named that and youre judging a Madoff case. Like the great newspaper piece in December about the guy who hired Mr. Cookoff the personal chef and Mr. Workoff the personal trainer on his Madoff money, etc.
In my small home town there was a Dr. Slaughter, who was a good doctor, and whose name we all had forgotten to laugh at except when somebody from out of town heard it the first time. Judge Rakoff will live.

By: Equity Private

Equity Private — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:03:26 +0000

“Posted by guest, Feb 05, 2009 3:43PM
Not to burst bubbles here, but pre-trial detention is only permitted to the extent necessary to secure the defendant’s appearance at trial. It cannot be used as punishment because the accused is presumed innocent until a jury actually convicts him. He will be in jail soon enough.”
It’s difficult to imagine a circumstance in which Dreier, accused with fairly strong evidence (direct and circumstantial) in two jurisdictions (internationally diverse jurisdictions, by the way) of impersonation and fraud as well as the secreting away of assets and art AFTER his initial arrest, does not appear to be enough of a flight risk to justify a remand.
Hmmmm.

By: guest

guest — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:51:36 +0000

*judges not judge, my bad.

By: guest

guest — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:50:06 +0000

Judge Rakoff is considered one of the finest judge in the most prestigious federal district court in the country. I can guarantee you that this decision was based on a sound following of the law and reading the facts. And no, I am not related to Judge Rakoff and nor do I work for him.
Also, whoever wrote that his name has something to do with his decision: stick to excel spreadsheets, don’t try to understand the law, its over your head.

By: guest

guest — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:49:30 +0000

By: guest

guest — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:48:57 +0000

By: guest

guest — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:43:37 +0000

Not to burst bubbles here, but pre-trial detention is only permitted to the extent necessary to secure the defendant’s appearance at trial. It cannot be used as punishment because the accused is presumed innocent until a jury actually convicts him. He will be in jail soon enough.