Why ? It was HER money. She and her husband earned it, and in the process paid taxes, some of which were used to help the “less fortunate”.
What a private person does with their own money is THEIR business, not anyone elses. . .
I'm not talking about paying taxes. Part of the reason she's so upset over this is because she can't live the pampered life she once had, and she feels like an "alien" (her word) in FL among the other rich people she knows. If she'd lived more modestly (especially after her husband died) and not been so class conscious, she'd not be so devastated personally. She'd have looked at the money as a blessing that had an expiration date. She could have spent all the excess doing God's work. "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." This woman was a fool.
However, it is her business. I agree. That's why I don't actually care about her plight.
We should withhold judgment until we determine how many illegal aliens worked for the family.
you are absolutely right. BUT when they make a public spectacle by becoming a newscast about it, air their stupidity, and then begin lawyering up to get back that money from ME, it is no longer JUST private. There are ALOT of people who were defrauded by Madoff, only the ones who are looking for public sympathy are coming out with these sob stories of how ALL their money was invested and now they might have to gasp go back to work and give up all their luxuries, thinking the american public will bail them out. Not ME. I am not interested. You play with fire, you get burned, lesson, don’t play with fire. Enough already