To: Ed25
Am I an idiot for thinking that jail time should be reserved for violent crimes? People like this should pay restitution plus punitive damages.
2 posted on
06/29/2009 11:51:24 AM PDT by
Borges
To: Borges
Am I an idiot for thinking that jail time should be reserved for violent crimes? People like this should pay restitution plus punitive damages.How in the heck could this man possibly pay restitution? He scammed billions upon billions. He lived the high life, now he can experience the same life as those he has left destitute.
To: Borges
People like this should pay restitution plus punitive damages.
Where exactly is he supposed to find that kind of money? It is impossible for him to pay back the amount of money he swindled. A con-job of this magnitude deserves all the jail time they can throw at him. I agree that the punishment for most "white-collar" crimes should be weighed carefully, but in this case Madoff hid behind the trappings of the white-collar world to perpetrate a fraud that boggles the mind and deserves everything they throw at him and then some. Just because he didn't use a gun to steal the money doesn't mean he should walk the steets.
7 posted on
06/29/2009 12:21:29 PM PDT by
contemplator
(Capitalism gets no Rock Concerts)
To: Borges
People like this should pay restitution plus punitive damages. He lost virtually every dollar that people invested with him to begin with. So how is he supposed to earn the money for restitution? Investing in the markets?
To: Borges
He stole billions of dollars. He CAN’T make restitution. He should be in jail - in a cage - fed food and water - then thrown to the sharks. He’s a LOSER!LOSER!!!LOSER!LOSER!LOSER!LOSER!LOSER!LOSER!LOSER!
25 posted on
06/29/2009 12:42:27 PM PDT by
GOPJ
(Iran's leaders have the same values as ACORN & Alinsky- no wonder they assumed Obama wouldn't object)
To: Borges
“People like this should pay restitution”
they tried to work a deal but Bernie came off to the judge and the prosecutor as a double talking, misleading liar.......I think that kinda pissed off the judge
29 posted on
06/29/2009 12:45:48 PM PDT by
sfvgto
(Dear Congress, my name is Jimmie....gimmie, gimmie, gimmie)
To: Borges
If you are an idiot, then so am I. This man is not a serial killer that is a danger to society. I am simply horrified at our justice system.
36 posted on
06/29/2009 1:11:16 PM PDT by
publana
(Sick and tired of being sick and tired and it's still the first year of Dear leader's reign.)
To: Borges
Am I an idiot for thinking that jail time should be reserved for violent crimes? People like this should pay restitution plus punitive damages.Violent crimes? Like beating up an 80-year-old man so that he spends a week in the hospital, 6 weeks in a leg cast, and then gets well?
How about depriving that same 80-year-old man of his entire life savings through fraud, so that he is now penniless, destitute and has to spend all the entire remaining days and years of his life standing long hours doing the strenuous work of chopping meat every day just so that he has just enough money to keep surviving until he can die?
Madoff stole people's entire futures from them.
To: Borges
well you have a point, although, if fines were the only deterrent from this type of garbage, there would be many more of these types of schemes.
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