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

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so dignified, despite all

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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.