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

Message Bookmarked
Bookmark Removed
Not all messages are displayed: show all messages (103 of them)

i was but seemed p boring?

MODS DID 10/11 (k3vin k.), Sunday, 30 October 2011 23:52 (twelve years ago) link

idk the whole event still enthralls me

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

J0rdan S., Sunday, 30 October 2011 23:53 (twelve years ago) link

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

J0rdan S., Sunday, 30 October 2011 23:55 (twelve years ago) link

five years pass...

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

Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Wednesday, 24 May 2017 05:14 (six years ago) link

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.

Treeship, Saturday, 27 May 2017 04:53 (six years ago) link


You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.