• 19 Mar 2009 at 10:09 AM

Madoff Back To Penthouse?

By Bess Levin

Let’s give it a shot! Ponzi Boy’s lawyer, Ira Sorkin, asked a three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals this morning to send Madoff home, because Judge Denny Chin “made a legal error” last week when he remanded Berns to Manhattan’s Correctional Center ’til the June 16th sentencing. Here’s hoping Sorkin went for broke and told himself, “if we’re gonna do this, let’s really do this,” and asked for vacay privileges to the house in Palm Beach, and to “…drop the pesky ankle monitoring bracelet. You can trust this guy.”

Comments (14)

  1. 1
    Posted by guest | March 19, 2009 at 10:14 AM

    Madoff has been unfairly wronged by the Justice system

  2. 2
    Posted by guest | March 19, 2009 at 10:19 AM

    Ira is just running up the billables before the money evaporates.

  3. 3
    Posted by guest | March 19, 2009 at 10:19 AM

    I feel bad for this guy. Everyone seems to be singling him out. Its not his fault if you really think about it.

  4. 4
    Posted by guest | March 19, 2009 at 10:25 AM

    @3, he is getting paid for this. Don’t make him out to be some pro bono Saint Genesius.

  5. 5
    Posted by guest | March 19, 2009 at 10:25 AM

    @3: by “this guy”, I hope you mean Ira.

  6. 6
    Posted by guest | March 19, 2009 at 10:27 AM

    @4. should’ve gone with Thomas Moore.

  7. 7
    Posted by guest | March 19, 2009 at 10:29 AM

    Free Madoff!
    Free Mumia!
    Free Terri Schiavo!
    Fat Free Pork Rinds!
    http://www.fatfreeporkrinds.com/

  8. 8
    Posted by merkin capital partners | March 19, 2009 at 10:33 AM

    rangel is a damn near cartoon. And there are his colleagues..
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N2uQ7Fg_Uk

  9. 9
    Posted by guest | March 19, 2009 at 10:41 AM

    I was wondering, does anyone know what legal error the lawyer is claiming??

  10. 10
    Posted by guest | March 19, 2009 at 10:45 AM

    @9: That if he wasn’t a flight risk before, why is he now.

  11. 11
    Posted by guest | March 19, 2009 at 10:48 AM

    @4- omg it was a joke. he was talking about madoff, not sorkin.

  12. 12
    Posted by NotNasser | March 19, 2009 at 11:52 AM

    Free Hat. (Those babies were attacking him. He acted in self defense.)

  13. 13
    Posted by guest | March 19, 2009 at 12:13 PM

    Thanks 10 (9 here) – response should be,
    “Well, Mr. Sorkin, Bernie there may say he’s good for the whole 150, but I have a sneaking suspicion that, like other promises he made in the past, when it come time to redeem, he may not have enough liquidity to cover.”

  14. 14
    Posted by guest | March 19, 2009 at 12:55 PM

    Apparently Madoff formed an alliance from prison with some sketchy names:
    http://decentcommunity.org/2009/03/18/madoff-stanford-and-aig-condemn-decent-community/

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