There’s a good question to ask. Dude stole $50 billion in a fraudulent ponzi scheme and apparently hired people to make fake accounting documents for some stupid reason. As Madoff faces up to 150 years in jail on 11 federal charges, which he’ll likely plead guilty to on Thursday, his investorshope that the guy finally explains what his motive was. source
‘Sociopath,’ ‘psychopath,’ it means there is a sickness, a pathology. This man knew what he was doing. I would simply call him thief, scoundrel, criminal.
Elie Wiesel • Talking about Bernard Madoff, who made off with $15 million from Wiesel’s charity organization as part of the $50 billion he stole from investors. Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor and Nobel Prize-winning writer, says Madoff should be held in solitary confinement with pictures of his victims constantly showing on a screen. • source
Six degrees of separation wasn’t enough. Bacon is just one of the famous names that shows up on a 162-page document listing those who lost money in Bernard Madoff’s investment scheme. Madoff, currently being held under house arrest in New York City after losing more than $50 billion in investor’s money, is accused of masterminding the biggest financial fraud in history. source