Ahead of the 10AM moment of truth, make your best guess now, Price Is Right style. Closest without going over will receive your choice of either a) a DealBreaker mug or b) a headshot signed by Charlie Gasparino. For reference, prosecutors want 150, Team Bernie wants 12.
Oh, just so you know:
In a letter to the court, Ira Sorkin, Madoff’s attorney, made an initial recommendation of a 12-year prison term, one year short of what Sorkin asserts to be Madoff’s life expectancy. What the letter does not point out — but what Judge Chin surely knows — is that a sentence of 12 years would actually only add up to about 9 years in federal prison. Here’s the math: Madoff has served over 3 months already, and under the federal Bureau of Prisons rules, he gets a 15% reduction for good time, which could deduct about 21 more months from the sentence. Finally, under the recently enacted Second Chance Act, he could even serve the last year of his term in home confinement if a pilot program becomes the norm — leaving about 9 years in federal prison.
Update: Judge Chin has put it out there that the federal probation department is recommending 50 years, without commenting whether or not he feels that’d be a reasonable sentence or if they ought to GTFO.
I’ll start by guessing 25 years.
~J. Skilling
69, dude!
With a statistically significant 425 votes cast in the FINalternatives/Bernie blog poll, 58.8% of readers are guessing that Bernard Madoff will be sentenced to the big house for more than 50 years. All these talking heads and lawyers speaking with the Wall Street Journal have him getting a maximum 30.
I guess we’ll find out circa 50 minutes from now.
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150
140 years with no congigual visits.
@3 we’re voting here, but thanks.
25
20 years max. He probably won’t live to see it anyway…
in the butt bob.
99
holy fuck I want that signed headshot so bad!
29 years
19 years, out in 12, dead in 12.5.
35 years….
see ya in hell Bernie!
CSWTF
How ’bout they just get medieval on his ass?
@6 — screw the mug, we’ve got real payouts here: http://bernard-madoff-scam.blogspot.com/
I will guess 100 years.
~Bernie Ebbers
50 years.
30
29 yrs…
tf1
30
Time served. Please, Dear God.
-Sir Alan
40 years.
62
112 years
death by firing squad
@24…..beat me to it. Well played sir/madam!!
He should pay back his debts by working in one of those massage parlors he likes so much.
75
67 years, Bob.
50 yr. sentence, although his defense will appeal and eventually get that number lowered.
15.
LA
27 years!
6 zillion years.
–ruth
I still think he’s innocent.
-walter noel
27 years!
34 years!
37 years – judge has to walk the line
a grillion years
102
bob, given his life expectancy of 83 years, the 15% discount for good behavior, I’ll go with 24 – 2x team bernie (and one less than team ebbers).
@37…..well played, intellectually illuminating as well! Kudos!
1 year
19 years
150
25 years and don’t forget to have your pets spayed and neutered.
25 years, 5 months and 13 days
1 year with Dennis Kneale!
I sentence you to be continuously blown by Toothy Ruthie Madoff until all of the skin is torn torn torn from your soul-less prick.
BOOM!
87.
ROK
House Arrest.
Sandra Manzky
31
let’s split the difference, 81 years.
jfh/msk
ps: if it’s federal pound me in the ass prison he’s dead in 5.
1 hour of solitary confinement with Dennis Kneale.
–Sue Herera
20 years of community service. Assisting the SEC investigating fraud. Because we can’t find our ass with both hands.
Mary Shapiro
Flogged around the fleet
Caning, singapore style
bastinado
midnight express baby
One year living with Hank Paulson.
23 years
60 years, als referred to as MJ+10
I think he should get 6 months home confinement, 1 year probation and banned from the security business for 5 years.
– Arthur Samberg
damnit, 2 30′s at 9:49?
32!
40
69, with a guy named Brucie.
are we going to get one of those martha stewart style circus shows once the verdict is read? you know, with the crazy interns running out of the courthouse with poster boards. because that would be fun.
@62 dont forget 3 weeks community service, this was a very serious offense
29
1 week of listening to me speak.
–bartiromo
40 years
70 years.
My prediction? Pain
Also, I bet no #s, they give him life.
My prediction? Pain
Also, I bet no #s, they give him life.
jesus fuck how can I make that headshot mine?
My prediction? Pain
Also, I bet no #s, they give him life.
The man is a financial genius. He is going to be the new National Health Czar.
Barack
For some reason, I think Ponzi boy can’t wait for a little A2M action upstate.
I sentence him to a life where the only thing he can read is posts by Greg Blanus.
52
@58…excellent (original) “Mutiny on the Bounty” reference.
Capt. Bligh: “Flog that man!”
Sailor: “But he’s dead, sir…”
Capt. Bligh: “The punishment must be carried out! Flog that man!”
18 (Chai!)
Ezzie
Probably added incentives for good behavior, helping to recoup the losses, helping the government stop other Ponzi schemes, etc. He’ll never serve out anything close to the 18. Watch him get out in 6-7.
162: 150 for what the prosecution wants plus 12 to drive home the point that what the defense wanted was ridiculous.
During his time in the pokey assets were likely still being squirreled away worldwide: a new definition of “good behavior” if I ever heard of one.
he’ll have to cover my grocery bills for a week.
-maria b.
40 1/4 on an uptick
he should be sentenced to living in a 1 bedroom with me.
-ruth
36 years.
-jonesy
150 years
infinity + 1
46 years
Thirty years. Can Chaz sign the mug, too?
100 yrs of tossing my salad.
-cg
sex with the noel daughters
874 years
75 years of Federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison
250 years.
-kevin bacon
12 years
25 TO 30 YEARS.
30 days + community service
-Donte Stallworth
1 year probation
50 million thousand years
18
18
18
18
walk
You talking to me? You talking to me? Go on home, boy.