Bernard Madoff and "the largest fraud in the history of Wall Street"

then again, this entire guy's life has been a never-ending story of escalating chutzpah ... so why stop now?!?

I'm just a murderer. I didn't cause the murder epidemic.

pleas of "yeah i suck and i did bad things, BUT HE DID SOMETHING MUCH WORSE OMIGODWTF!" can be surprisingly effective. but that won't be so for Bernie Madoff in either a court of law or the court of public opinion. even in this day and age, ripping off charities and widows won't get you any sympathy. Madoff should just STFU already.

bernard and ruth madoff supposedly tried to commit suicide after the scandal was exposed.

one of the most blatant attempts at sympathy trolling i've ever seen

yeah, that's my impression, too.

i thought i read that ruth was so furious at bernard after learning of the scheme that she totally divorced herself (legally and otherwise) from him. not saying this is necessarily inconsistent with a mutual suicide pact (or maybe my memory is inaccurate), but it seems odd.

i kind of keep forgetting this guy is still alive honestly. didn't his son kill himself?

yes.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gc2ksjK0U-TlVD910UnN-nZUNdEQ?docId=2f8c6eaa35c84e25949c500636fe95c2

Well, Bernie says he thought about it but didn't attempt it, so

anyone watching 60 mins?

someone tell me that it's okay that i kinda find ruth madoff to be incredibly sexy

for someone who is 65 or w/e

i was but seemed p boring?

idk the whole event still enthralls me

+ the son has never spoken, that part of it is v interesting to me...

i wish surm was watching this, he'd be so into ruth

http://www.badidea.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/bernard-ruth-madoff.jpg

so dignified, despite all

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_O9R7cVoh2qY/Socw_xUT1fI/AAAAAAAAAzk/lHlLr4qswAg/s400/ruthatbeach.jpg

Pfeiffer was so good as Ruth Madoff in "Wizard of Lies"

yeah, she was great.

bernie madoff definitely deserved his punishment. however, i think there is something to his claim that he was a scapegoat for problems that are endemic throughout wall street. those mortgage securities were essentially fraudulent too, but all the people beyond that got off, and the tea party ended up not being angry at the banks, but rather at the people who were misled into buying mortgages they couldn't afford.

a fraudster is currently president of the united states. he paid a 25 million dollar settlement this very year.

fraud is a major part of our economy and people, in general, admire scam artists if they can get away with it. so like, bernie madoff was right when he said that it was fucked up for that times reporter to compare him to ted bundy. that implies he is some wild outsider rather than an exaggerated version of a familiar type.