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Old 06-29-2009, 05:01 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by cecilia View Post
So he's that old already. Just a thought, spending your younger years in extreme luxury but living your old age (where you probably cant even surf or dance or even drink alcohol) in pison, isnt that a fair trade off? At that age you might be losing your mind from dementia already and you wont even know youre in jail or feel that you are...

I just think it wouldve worked if all his money would be distributed to his victims. That would be a more favorable sense of justice for me. I know little about the law, so where would all of that money go, the government?

If I was an evil person, and I would look at this event... I might conclude that its worth doing what he just did.
Very true. I do believe that the government is trying to get as many assets from them as possible. Most of the money would probably go to the victims, but the government would inevitably take some of it (they are better than Madoff at taking money). Madoff was evil, but a genius, he clearly knew his way around both finances and the law. Getting that money will probably be very hard.

It's sad that such an intelligent man couldn't make a legitimate fortune.
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