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Bernie Madoff Dies

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    Allinall
    Registered Users Posts: 6,562 ✭✭✭Allinall


    R.I.P.


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    Bob Harris
    Registered Users Posts: 3,462 ✭✭✭Bob Harris


    Deleted User wrote: »
    In Jail Aged 82. Defrauded Scientologist Tom Cruise, Joyce Greenerg and Ilene Kent's elderly parents. amongst others. I do not feel any sympathy for Bernie. What do other boardsies think?

    Why would you feel sympathy for him? Tens of thousands die everyday that you don't know and you don't ask yourself if you feel sympathy for them.


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    valoren
    Registered Users Posts: 5,458 ✭✭✭valoren


    But he only served 12 of the 150 years he was sentenced to!

    The worst consequence of his scam was having to watch Kevin Bacon doing Orange mobile phone ads because of it. The horror.


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    MyPeopleDrankTheSoup
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    he marketed his investment as open to Jewish people only, I always found that interesting.


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    Zebra3
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    Bob Harris wrote: »
    Why would you feel sympathy for him? Tens of thousands die everyday that you don't know and you don't ask yourself if you feel sympathy for them.

    Look at the grief junkies in the Philip the Racist thread.


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    [Deleted User]
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    Another great man lost. RIP.


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    StupidLikeAFox
    Registered Users Posts: 7,699 ✭✭✭StupidLikeAFox


    valoren wrote: »
    But he only served 12 of the 150 years he was sentenced to!

    Prob would have gotten out after 125 with good behaviour tbh


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    [Deleted User]
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    No sympathy for him, but not much sympathy either for very wealthy people who thought they were billionaires based on unearned income. In the hierarchy of tragedies, this one doesn't really rank.


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    [Deleted User]
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    ^^^^And that's why I posted thread here in good old AH! I'm not that well liked in ranting and raving forum either :D


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    [Deleted User]
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    Capitalism exploits each of us every day, and he exploited it. His only crime was getting caught.

    May the clouds lower to meet him.


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    The Nal
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    Fcuk sake. Phil Spector, Screech and now Madoff. This is worse than 2016.


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    [Deleted User]
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    The tether cryptocurrency scam operating at the moment is way bigger than Madoff’s scam.


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    Zebra3
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Capitalism exploits each of us every day, and he exploited it. His only crime was getting caught.

    May the clouds lower to meet him.

    He got caught in the wrong country. If he made hundreds of millions here by bribing a government minister, he’d be fine.


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    dhaughton99
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    Wizard of lies is a great movie. DeNiro plays Bernie.


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    Bob Harris
    Registered Users Posts: 3,462 ✭✭✭Bob Harris


    The Nal wrote: »
    Fcuk sake. Phil Spector, Screech and now Madoff. This is worse than 2016.

    What???? Screech? Saved by the Bell Screech is dead??? How did I not know about this?


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    watsonandcrick
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    Not to get into the conspiratorial side of things but does anyone find it hard to believe that he could steal €65 billion without anyone on Wall Street, the FBI, government finding out?

    I think there were a lot of people who benefited from Madoffs fraud and didn't want the money to be recovered.


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    A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »
    No sympathy for him, but not much sympathy either for very wealthy people who thought they were billionaires based on unearned income. In the hierarchy of tragedies, this one doesn't really rank.

    Stole from charities too.
    https://t.co/gcaNlIlbO3?amp=1


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    [Deleted User]
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    MyPeopleDrankTheSoup wrote: »
    he marketed his investment as open to Jewish people only, I always found that interesting.

    Very strange as he was Jewish himself.


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    [Deleted User]
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    Bob Harris wrote: »
    What???? Screech? Saved by the Bell Screech is dead??? How did I not know about this?

    He died very quickly, weeks after being diagnosed with cancer earlier this year.

    He was broke, too, the poor sod. Seems to have had a very un-Screechlike life after SBTB, getting into knife fights and suchlike.

    RiP Screech and Bernie, they're up there now, with Our Lord and Stalin and Bob Marley.


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    Smee_Again
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    82? The good ones always die young.


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    Marcos
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    MyPeopleDrankTheSoup wrote: »
    he marketed his investment as open to Jewish people only, I always found that interesting.

    He knew his market, or should I say marks, well. He presented himself as an exclusive investment manager and had people waiting ages to give him their money, thus building up the hype and more people wanted to give him their money. Some were literally begging to invest with him.

    A very accomplished conman. But no morals, mind you, that's probably a conman's greatest "gift".

    When most of us say "social justice" we mean equality under the law opposition to prejudice, discrimination and equal opportunities for all. When Social Justice Activists say "social justice" they mean an emphasis on group identity over the rights of the individual, a rejection of social liberalism, and the assumption that unequal outcomes are always evidence of structural inequalities.

    Andrew Doyle, The New Puritans.



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    MAULBROOK
    Registered Users Posts: 1,470 ✭✭✭MAULBROOK


    So he did died of a Wednesday.


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    [Deleted User]
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    On the front of this morning's Irish Daily Mail ..."$65 billion fraudster dies"

    Hope that does'nt hurt some posters feelings too much on this thread.


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    Eric Cartman
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    RIP, he only got that level of sentence due to public protest and a media witchhunt due to recession , white collar crime should have a 15 year cap


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    ohnonotgmail
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    Eric Cartman wrote: »
    RIP, he only got that level of sentence due to public protest and a media witchhunt due to recession , white collar crime should have a 15 year cap

    150 years for the largest fraud in history seems fair enough.


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    [Deleted User]
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    Eric Cartman wrote: »
    RIP, he only got that level of sentence due to public protest and a media witchhunt due to recession , white collar crime should have a 15 year cap

    A lot of damage to a lot of people in service of private gain seems to me to call for a high price.

    We should see more long sentences for the likes of this


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    Mad_maxx
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    dhaughton99 wrote: »
    Wizard of lies is a great movie. DeNiro plays Bernie.

    thought it was pretty poor myself


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    [Deleted User]
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    Eric Cartman wrote: »
    RIP, he only got that level of sentence due to public protest and a media witchhunt due to recession , white collar crime should have a 15 year cap

    This says a lot about your level of ethics tbh. He might not have killed anyone directly. But he ruined many lives and was responsible for a fair few suicides.


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    Mad_maxx
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    MyPeopleDrankTheSoup wrote: »
    he marketed his investment as open to Jewish people only, I always found that interesting.

    Kevin Bacon isn't Jewish so I doubt the above is true ?


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    Bob Harris
    Registered Users Posts: 3,462 ✭✭✭Bob Harris


    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    Kevin Bacon isn't Jewish so I doubt the above is true ?

    Ofc he's not Jewish, his name isn't Kosher.


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