150 Years for Madoff?

Madoff got 150 years?

Why?

Does that serve the greater good?

Does that really contribute to solving the problems that stemmed from Madoff's misdeeds?

I want to suggest, as I am confident others have, that Madoff be given a reduced sentence in exchange for answering every question that investigators ask regarding how he did what he did and what are his recommendations for how this might be detected and/or prevented in the future.

Put him away for life?

Who does that help? The incompetents at the SEC who stood by and allowed this to happen?

Madoff should become the Frank Abagnale of the securities and investment fraud universe.

What can we learn from him, to actually change things?

Comments

[sunbeamarrow]

The SEC has proven that they are good at beating up little old ladies like Martha Steward
but don't have a clue when there are real crooks involved. They didn't understand the math
that the imformer presented. All SEC personel should be tested for competence and fired
if they fail. Probably too many relatives working there.
As for Madoff, I was hoping they would try him for treason for trying to destabilize the
country-then execute him. Enough Madoffs could bring down the country.

[RClaus801]

They already know how he did his scheme. Besides, he had a choice he could have made a long time ago to explore ways to protect his clients money, not abscond with it. What would he teach any investor or authorities?

[UKOH]

I heard somebody suggest that rather than locking him up, Madoff should be put to work using his considerable skills to make money which could then be used to repay some of his victim's losses.

Sounds good to me.

The punishment would be in stripping him of all assets, so that he has to live a humble life while making millions that he will never see himself.

Of course he might not cooperate or only work half heartedly to generate money for his victims. If that happened we can always revert to the prison sentence.

He should be asked if he has genuine remorse. If the answer is yes then ask him to prove it by working in this way.

[MikeLMiller]

Bigger treachery than Madoff's?

Journalist Files Charges against president, WHO, others for Intent to Commit Mass Murderhttp://www.NaturalNews.com/026503_pandemic_swine_flu_bioterrorism.html

Joke? Many vaccines now suspect.

"The chief, if not the sole, cause of the monstrous increase in cancer has been vaccination." International Society for Cancer Research.

Amish.
http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2005/12/07/The-Age-of-Autism-A-pretty-big-secret/UPI-68291133982531/

Polio/AIDS in Africa
http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/dissent/documents/AIDS/

WHO killed Africa
http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=34&contentid=2095&page=2

Kissinger ... [implemented] plans to lower [black African] population ... using ... (vaccines contaminated with HIV).
http://www.newswithviews.com/Howenstine/james29.htm

Lendman - Dangerous/forced vaccines.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13925

Baxter/Bayer making the vaccines.

"... significant [since] Baxter still being investigated [about mixing] live avian flu/ human flu which ... could not have been a mistake ...
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/04/27/18591509.php

Baxter/Bayer knowingly sold HIV/AIDs-tainted blood.
http://www.ahrp.org/infomail/0503/22.php

Bayer killed Auschwitz prisoners with vaccines.
http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/PHARMACEUTICAL_BUSINESS/history_of_the_pharmaceutical_industry.htm

MERCK laughs/vaccines
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgBBwOnmy3w

Petition.
http://www.tetrahedron.org/articles/vaccine_awareness/vaccine_injury_petition.html

Coffins before swine flu.
www.disclose.tv/action/viewvideo/7536/ MILLIONS_O­F_PLASTIC_­FEMA_COFFI­NS___ORDER­ED_BY_BUSH­/

Microbiologists.
http://farshores.org/sc05mic.htm

[morphyous]

Mr. Baldwin,I enjoy your wonderful mind ! I am really happy that you are making yourself available to people such as myself. I have always followed your amazing career. My first favorite movie was with you and Nichole Kidman. You are an incredibly talented actor and just my kind of people. Thanks so much for enriching my life. I hope that somewhere in your future you do go into politics. You are a great independent voice, with a straight forward, bold and honest take on the subject of the day. I have meant to write to you for sometime, and just wanted to say I hope to be reading you and watching you for a long time.

[heppers]

Zombie Madoff To Finish 150 Year Sentence

http://thebunyon.com/science/102-zombie-madoff-to-finish-150-year-sentence.html.

U.S. District Judge Denny Chin has sentenced "Evil" Madoff to 150 years in prison, but it will be Zombie Madoff that will have to finish the rest of that sentence. Chin had this to say - "It has been determined that in order for the victims of this heinous crime to receive the justice they so greatly deserve, we must extend the felon's life and thus, his punishment, to an as-of-yet undetermined, undead period of time."

[bswell]

Alec is the best. He even beat out Frank Rich on this one.

Alec Baldwin ought to run for office when he no longer wants to act.

[alysonland]

Alec,

I love you. Not in a creepy way, but I respect you as an actor, and of course you are an extremely attractive and intelligent man.
Whatever your regimen is --keep it going.

Here's the thing about your post, however.You're right .150 years for Madoff doesn't do any good.
But, really... couldn't hurt either.

Just a thought.

Best,
Alyson A
Age 33
Hot,No Cal Liberal

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Age 47
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[NobleNurse]

I like your post, I agree with all of it :)

[BB28]

I think you'd feel quite differently Alex if you were one of the people who is now facing retirement with having to live in a tent, or perhaps having to work at Mickeydee's to buy your groceries.

The other problems that allowed this to happen, sure they need fixing but Madoff should get his due.

[S1m0n]

At his age, 150 years is as good as 20. He'll be in jail until he dies, or more likely until he gets so frail he needs to go to a nursing home. When either happens, it won't much matter how much of his sentence remains unserved.

[tubette]

You are out of touch on this one..... people lost their retirement funds and their lives have been ruined.
If this sets an example for others, then so be it. If he were to walk the street he probably wouldn't live long,

[apolloguide]

15o years is OK with me as long as we don't have to keep the bugger alive for that long.

[progressiveconnie]

GOOD MORNING!!! MY FELLOW HOMO SAPIENS WHICH MEANS THE SPECIES WHO IS WISE.
The U.S. Department of Justice should set up a special task force to achieve one goal and that is to prosecute all those corporate swindlers who caused this world wide financial meltdown.
All those involved in the scams, cons and swindles that the swindlers liked to call swaps, derivatives, hedges and securitizations should be investigated.
One of the greatest achievements of the U.S. Department of Justice was its special task force investigating and successfully prosecuting the criminal activities of the Mafia and when one considers the trillions that was stolen from all over the world by these corporate swindlers it makes the Mafia look like petty thieves.
The question is: " WHY THE HELL HASN'T THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE DONE THIS BY NOW???!!!

[Cookie100]

The thing everyone is missing is,where is the money? No one can spend that amount of money.

[JimPidcock]

That's the point: there never was that much money. It's all smoke and mirrors. Just like the balance sheets of Lehman Bros., Bank of A., Fannie and Freddie, etc.

But I do agree with Alec: make him useful during the rest of his sorry life.

[koppenberg]

Despite the headlines, Madoff didn't pocket and spend 65 billion dollars.

He moved the money around, paying "gains" to earlier customers or whoever cashed out of the fund, skimming some of it.

Where's the mone Madoff didn't spend? Those people who got out before the implosion have the money.

It's just like the real estate bubble and worthless securities in the other financial messes we're in. All that money didn't just disappear into a hole in the ground--the folks who got out before the implosions have it (along with the governments that taxed them on those gains).

[Spec138]

You're basically arguing here that he shouldn't be put away for life because we don't gain anything from it? We don't gain anything from putting away murderers either except keeping them of the streets. Madoff got what was coming to him.

[shearm]

Yes, but with a murderer, he goes back on the street and murders again. Nobody is going to invest with Madoff again if say, you gave him 20 years in exchange for full cooperation and he gets out when he's 90. That way we can get some information about what and how he did what he did. See, the 150 years deal is a great way to distract people, and say "Here, here's the guy you should be mad at." When in reality, we should be looking at the Fed and the other crooks on wall street.

[joker1982]

I'm sure most financial experts now understand what exactly Madoff did and how he did it.

He's not Hannibal Lecter, Alec. Madoff isn't some genius criminal mastermind the likes the world cannot fathom.

[thenextquagmire]

Hannibal Lecter was a "movie" make believe character. Madoff is far worse. He's real.