Madoff's Motto: "F*ck My Victims" (VIDEO)

The Wall Street Journal passes along this video profile of K.C. White, a fellow inmate of Bernie Madoff's at the Butner Federal Correctional Complex in North Carolina.

When Madoff sat for a portrait with K.C. White -- who sketches in his free time -- he insisted that he not be depicted in his prison uniform. White depicted him in a suit and tie. Madoff, who White says was pleased with the work, signed the portrait -- which the artist is now trying to sell.

According to White, Madoff was less than repentant for defrauding his clients of billions of dollars. "His whole motto was 'F*ck my victims,'" he said. "That's all he would say." And White didn't take to Madoff's "smirk," either: when he looked at his face, White says, what he saw in his expression was: "I got you."

Watch Madoff's former prison friend describe his impressions below:

Comments

[SkreetGil1]

01:41 AM on 02/03/2010

I hope he gets a lot!

[HelloFunnyWorld]

07:56 PM on 01/20/2010

Oh wow~

Two very talented men, hope they both get what they deserve....

The painting's pretty good. And, we think the painter ought to get a good amount, perhaps the sale of his painting back to Wall Street with a what not to do frame around it, or may be it can be bought by the board of a future Museum of White Collar Crooks?

[HappyMarsden]

03:20 PM on 12/24/2009

I'll buy it.

[lazercat2008]

03:20 PM on 12/24/2009

That's basically the attitude down on Wall Street. F#%* the investors.

[TheFabOne]

08:06 PM on 12/24/2009

Faved, my man...........

[Bogey907]

12:07 PM on 01/28/2010

Yes. Let's not forget that Madoff was chairman of the NASDAQ exchange.

Birds of a feather.

[mizerello]

02:42 PM on 12/24/2009

Isn't interesting that the Wall Street Journal and CNBC et. al are now finding every opportunity to cast Madoff in as bad a light as possible (well deserved I might add)? When it would have counted, say fifteen years ago when they all knew that something was amiss but didn't want to rock the boat, they refused to speak truth to power. Now that he's powerless, it's easy for them--a bit like what happened when the entire main stream media laid down and let the Bush admin. roll right over them with their wars of "necessity." I won't read anything the WSJ publishes and I don't watch CNBC because they're nothing but apologists for the corporations who've brought this country to its knees.

[kdoug]

02:19 PM on 12/24/2009

"Medication line" ... looks like big Pharma has it's hands in everything ...
I hope this sweet artist gets BIG $$ for his drawing!

[Marnieblue]

02:00 PM on 12/24/2009

thought you weren't allowed to profit from crimes?

[AngusC]

02:46 PM on 12/22/2009

Least Madoff can do is provide some money for the poor one way or the other.
The portrait is not bad and it was honest work.

[Tulka2]

02:33 PM on 12/22/2009

I hope the medication line doesn't hand out "feel good" medication.

[FoonTheElder]

02:21 PM on 12/22/2009

It sounds like all of Wall Street's motto.

[skippyB]

11:13 AM on 12/22/2009

Considering he couldn't f more than half and inch, this makes great sense. Guess it applies to all those guys walking around on Wall Street.

[GayIthacan]

03:49 AM on 12/22/2009

Such a shame we have not extended the death penalty yet to white collar crimes.

[Acadine]

02:10 AM on 12/22/2009

Ruth should buy the portrait.

[dzagama]

11:35 AM on 12/24/2009

With whose money?

[HelloFunnyWorld]

12:16 PM on 01/21/2010

Oooh perfect question ~

:)
LoL

[brooklyncitizen]

11:19 PM on 12/21/2009

Hope this artist makes a profit.If not for this portrait then for his other artwork.

[munki]

11:27 PM on 12/21/2009

So as promised... GET BACK ON HIS FEET...

He is doing it right... got a publicist...

[HappyMarsden]

03:22 PM on 12/24/2009

He's got a publicist... but not a home, and lives on the street.

Only in America!

[Franklin Print]

10:14 PM on 12/21/2009

Incidentally, "F*ck my victims" is the motto of virtually everyone on Wall Street.

Madoff is the scapegoat they want us to hate.