Every so often we like to check in and see how the victims of the greatest Ponzi scheme of all time are coping in the aftermath. Bernie’s doing great, making friends and earning the respect of his fellow criminals on the cell block. Ruth is house hunting. Mark is being a dick on Nantucket. Kevin Bacon is hurting, but will likely dance again one day soon. And how ’bout those Noels? Walter, Monica and the five girls, all of whom were pretty negatively affected by the scam, owing to the fact that 4/5 of their husbands went to work for daddy, so when the bitch went down it went down hard. Are they hiding out in some undisclosed southern Connecticut bunker? Are they sitting around a 1-bedroom apartment over a pizza place they all moved into cursing the day Bernie Madoff came into their lives? Are they filling out applications at Beamers? No! They’re partaying on a yacht. Vicky Ward reports that Andrés Piedrahita, husband of Corina, and the FFG exec responsible for bringing in all that sweet Colombian cash recently bought himself a boat and has never been better.
Look no further than the website of luxury yacht sellers Camper and Nicholsons to see pictures of “Oxygen” the new €22,000,000.00 custom-made boat that Piedrahita, took possession of in June. He is now cruising the Adriatic with wife Corina Noel and their children. I am told he has plans to cruise around the Dalmatian coast and Corfu.
Recently he has been spotted in St. Tropez and in Venice. Over the weekend I was with financiers who say they’ve seen him out and about as if nothing ever went awry in his life. Acquaintances believe this blatant vacationing is “a tremendous risk” — no doubt referring to the very angry Latin Americans who allegedly gave him money to invest and could not legally declare it. I have heard he would be unwise to set foot in certain places around the globe, people are so furious with him.
Thats quite about if it can sail around the Serengeti.
“cursing the day Bernie came into their lives” Why would they do that? Berns may be the source of their grief but he was also the source of their tremendous wealth. Can’t blame him for the fall without giving him credit for their rise.
As a Fairfield county kid growing up I love the reference to Beamers…hilarious
It’s not vacationing. It’s called running from the law. There’s no extradition treaty with the U.S. from the middle of the Atlantic ocean.
After this “news” article, latino americanos will hunt him down. I give it a week before he is found with his own dick in his mouth.
-TGFHouston
@3 same.
-SC
“LATINO Americans”?? Really? Come on people, clean up your acts…
- E Mendez
Crew of 8…I hope they got paid cash up-front.
Is banging a Noel girl considered bestiality?
corina is the least horse-y of the 5, and therefor wins.
excellent tag
Poseidon, look at me, oh, all hands on deck. Never thought I’d see the day. When a big boat coming my way. Believe me when I say I fucked a mermaid.
What about all the drug cartel money he placed with his father-in-law?
I’m riding on a dolphin, doing flips and shit
The dolphin’s splashing, getting everybody all wet
But this ain’t Seaworld, this is real as it gets
I’m on a boat, motherfucker, don’t you ever forget
@13 shhh
Andres is beyond stupid. He obviously has no judgment. Nada. Zip. Zilch.
Gonna fly this boat to the moon some how
UGHHHH. Thanks for that link to Beamers that will get me fired.
@18 wtf did you think the link was going to open to?
flippie-floppies, hah
@9 i will be in korfu and will make it my personal responsibility to find out – if it feels wrong, i dont wanna be right.
Beamers. Nice!
Interesting boat, but E22mm for ~130′ LOA seems a bit steep, coulda bought very slightly used, or even mostly-new 150′+ for same price (unless he saw what was coming and paid extra $$ to have the hull lined with bulletproofing/bombproofing)
Where are the clients’ yachts?????
Give the man a break. Bobbing up and down makes for a tougher sniper target, and the Russian pirate hunting tourists are hundreds of miles away.