150 years for Bernard Madoff?
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Posted by Felix Okoli on February 10, 2011 at 09:50:13:
I know Bernard Madoff cost a lot of investors billions of dollars but I'm wondering what his prosecutors hope to achieve by sending an old man to jail for 150 years?
It is a funny world we are in where the biggest criminals are not always the most violent. Periodically, we hear of wars in Africa, stupid shootings in Arizona, bank robberies, online scams worth millions coming from Nigeria and then you now compare that to the Madoff case. Somehow, he may not have actually killed people but deceived them and killed them emotionally. What if he was doing a legit investment business for a while but later got too old and tired to keep profiting? I guess Madoff must have some clients that profited from him and maybe it was his last clients that had the biggest losses, but why give 150 years jail term to a 70 year old man? I think they should be a limit of age for sending people to prison. 70 year old persons should be allowed to probably live their lives outside jail. Maybe we should have allowed Madoff serve jail term outside his prisons. Speaking of that, I wonder when he is due for parole. I wonder between Madoff and Assange, who really is more evil. If Madoff got 150 years imprisonment and forfeiture of $17.179 billion, I wonder what Assange - the Wikileaks celebrity would get.
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I know Bernard Madoff cost a lot of investors billions of dollars but I'm wondering what his prosecutors hope to achieve by sending an old man to jail for 150 years?
It is a funny world we are in where the biggest criminals are not always the most violent. Periodically, we hear of wars in Africa, stupid shootings in Arizona, bank robberies, online scams worth millions coming from Nigeria and then you now compare that to the Madoff case. Somehow, he may not have actually killed people but deceived them and killed them emotionally. What if he was doing a legit investment business for a while but later got too old and tired to keep profiting? I guess Madoff must have some clients that profited from him and maybe it was his last clients that had the biggest losses, but why give 150 years jail term to a 70 year old man? I think they should be a limit of age for sending people to prison. 70 year old persons should be allowed to probably live their lives outside jail. Maybe we should have allowed Madoff serve jail term outside his prisons. Speaking of that, I wonder when he is due for parole. I wonder between Madoff and Assange, who really is more evil. If Madoff got 150 years imprisonment and forfeiture of $17.179 billion, I wonder what Assange - the Wikileaks celebrity would get.
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