Apparently Judge Denny Chin was most sickened by a letter from an investor who wrote that after her husband died Bernie put his arms around her and said "your money's safe with me." Under/over on how long before CNBC labels the verdict a green shoot?
Madoff Gets 150 Years
Posted by Bess Levin, Jun 29, 2009, 11:33am
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Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 11:35AM
I win!!!
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 11:36AM
I call dibs on Ruthie!
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 11:36AM
dont do the crime if you cant do the time!!
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 11:36AM
Boom goes the dynamite!
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 11:36AM
Burn in hell, a-hole.
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 11:36AM
What's got 2 thumbs and called 150 years? Oh yeah, this guy!!!
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 11:36AM
Source?
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 11:36AM
Never separate a Jew and his money,
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 11:39AM
Next prediction- prison beatdown/death in 6mos. Probably by Ebbers
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 11:39AM
Pliers and a blow torch mofo.
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 11:40AM
Thank God he got the 150 years. I thought he was going to get off with only 50.
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 11:40AM
@8:
That's racist, xenophobic and insulting. And I'm not even a dirty jew!
All kidding aside, when do the real ponzi's get justice? You know, like the Federal Reserve?
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 11:41AM
Next prediction- prison beatdown/death in 6mos. Probably by Ebbers
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 11:41AM
CNN has it as a breaking story that he's getting 150.
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 11:41AM
think Ira S. will get paid anything for his troubles?
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 11:42AM
@14 so?
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 11:43AM
Burn in hell, a-hole.
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 11:44AM
Kosher
Posted by merkin capital partners , Jun 29, 2009 11:45AM
so i came in on the under...
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 11:45AM
What time is Ruthie's press conference and her announcement that she's suing for divorce?
Which of our Dealbreaker luminaries is going to step up and offer her a place to stay now that she's on the rebound?
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 11:45AM
@17, relax. You've already been recognized at the most outraged with your previous posting (no need to keep re-sending). Your award is in the mail.
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 11:46AM
Wow, six flashies. Is that limit up? Looks like there's room for a seventh.
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 11:47AM
I called 140 with no congigual visits which is equal to 150.
Give me my prize.
Posted by AndrewInGreenwich , Jun 29, 2009 11:47AM
10 years would have been fair.
Posted by AndrewInGreenwich , Jun 29, 2009 11:48AM
10 years would have been fair.
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 11:48AM
cut off his fingers
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 11:48AM
@22
octobox!!
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 11:49AM
I feel bad for him. Everybody is ganging up on him. I will always be your friend, Bernsy!
Schlomo Rubinowitz
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 11:49AM
At least he'll be able to celebrate his 221 birthday in freedom.
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 11:50AM
Court Transcript. Happy reading.
http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2009/03/12/full-madoff-court-transcript/
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 11:50AM
I called 140 with no congigual visits which is equal to 150.
Give me my prize.
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 11:52AM
That transcript is from 3 months ago. Try to keep up.
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 11:52AM
Sorry. Old transcript. I'm a loser.
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 11:52AM
He'll meet new friends, be able to work on his canasta,have sign out privileges at the jailbird library, and offer free financial planning advice to any and all early parolees.He could get buff, watch lots of Matlock reruns, and make his own shiv in machine shop.
In all, not a bad life....
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 11:53AM
All this does is guarantee his lifestyle (as shitty as it will probably be) will be funded by his victims (and others) taxes. What would it matter if he got 150 or 500 years. Frankly, it could have been funny to give him his own show (with proceeds going to the victims) where has to do shitty jobs all day. That would be a truer form of justice.
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 11:57AM
Whew!! At least he didn't get life in prison!!
~AIG Quant
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 11:57AM
News Flash: Ruthie files for guardianship of the Jackson kids, solving two of her problems at once - kids who will actually talk to her, and of course, $$$$$.
Posted by Anal_yst , Jun 29, 2009 11:58AM
@35
Make him work till death as Head of SEC/Finra with mandatory performance measures/goals to hit
Posted by FUNdamental , Jun 29, 2009 11:59AM
Why not just execute him? 150 years is the same thing.
Also we could sell tv ad time and tshirts for the execution to raise money for the victims!
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 12:01PM
@37 haha, so true!
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 12:01PM
How soon before he shows up in front of Madame Tousseaus holding soap on a rope?
Posted by merkin capital partners , Jun 29, 2009 12:01PM
this poor "depths of hell" bastard confirms that Bernie was running his con at the Alzheimer's ward.
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 12:13PM
"Why not just execute him? 150 years is the same thing. "
actually, it's not. he should have to suffer.
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 12:16PM
Blue and red flashy things hurt my eyes
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 12:17PM
Burn in h*ll, a-hole!
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 12:17PM
Macke has gathered his carpeople, and put on his cape. Bernie, we're comin' to get ya!
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 12:20PM
what did charles ponzi get? 10 years?
thats the difference between screwing the little italians of boston and screwing the big jews of wall street
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 12:22PM
In related news, Ruthie and the juniors have started a new venture, Mr. Nice Guy, in which they deliver fine herb to consumers. They hope to raise enough to bail sweet Bernie's virgin ass out of prison.
"God...if you listenin'...heellllp!"
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 12:22PM
OK, seven flashies. Can you add a klaxon/siren for something really important? I like the Euro sound if it's especially dreadful.
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 12:24PM
@47 don't forget about me!
-kevin bacon
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 12:31PM
Sometimes I wish my name was Shabeefa.
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 12:33PM
@36 ftw, for life. seriously, that's probably the best comment i've ever seen here.
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 12:42PM
Why did that letter upset the Judge? The widow's money was safe with me. Safe in my fucking pocket.
Bernie
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 12:44PM
@52 here, having gone back on some of the earlier madoff comments today i take back the "probably the best comment" evaluation, no offence to @36. today has really brought out the awesomeness in comments here.
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 12:47PM
They are saying the judge's statement is phenomenal. Anyone know where to find it?
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 12:49PM
@55 - I'm sure @30 can provide the transcript in a few weeks
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 12:54PM
@52/54 here -- @56 case in point.
not @56.
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 1:00PM
LOBSTERCLOPS is pleased
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 1:02PM
He will be dead in a couple of years
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 1:21PM
So, worth it? Yes or no. Discuss.
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 1:26PM
@48 They didn't know that the horse was a diabetic!
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 1:26PM
OK, I'll go. Definitely worth it. 40 years of the high life. Two-three years in a Martha Stewart-like facility at the end. No nursing home bills. Yes! America, a great country or what?
Posted by HeadlessHorseman , Jun 29, 2009 1:40PM
I'm with @35...could be like a special edition of that "Dirty Jobs" show on the Discovery channel.
So long as Bernie bunks with a few Hell's Angels types that are serving consecutive life sentences (preferably in an unsupervised sound proof cell) at the conclusion of each day's filming, I'm all for forcing him to earn some scrilla scratch paper for his victims.
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 2:00PM
@61: Excellent "Half Baked" reference
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 2:05PM
@63 and let him occassionally watch footage of himself when he was wealth, pumping in scents of good food from time to time (kind of like re-applying the band-aid just to rip it right off again)
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 2:11PM
Now throw Bernanke and the other Fed governors behind bars too and we can rid our financial system of all this scum.
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 2:21PM
What type of prison? I can't seem to find it. Minimum, maximum, federal? He's 71; don't they generally put people at that age in a certain type of jail?
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 2:22PM
What type of prison? I can't seem to find it. Minimum, maximum, federal? He's 71; don't they generally put people at that age in a certain type of jail?
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 2:24PM
What type of prison? I can't seem to find it. Minimum, maximum, federal? He's 71. Don't they generally put people at that age in a certain type of jail?
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 2:30PM
Over under five weeks before he's scammed all of san quinten out of Newports.
-D-Rat
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 2:33PM
whatevs, it was worth it.
-berns
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 2:35PM
I believe its going to be Federal-"Bang me in the ass"-Prison
Posted by guest , Jun 29, 2009 2:56PM
@72 - if you are referring to Office Space, it's "federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison"
If you're going to quote, at least get it right. There's a great service called Google that will help.