Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Bernie Madoff: You Must Be Joking. ME go to jail?
American Justice System to prosecutors: Do you realize how much money this guy has? And, you want to put him in jail? Get real! It is more punishment to banish him to a mere $7,000,000 penthouse. Poor people get justice. Rich people get off.
Bulletproof Bernie: Gov't Effort to Revoke Madoff Bail Again Bounces Off
Court Sends Madoff Back to $7Mil Penthouse
By RICHARD ESPOSITO and AARON KATERSKY
Jan. 14, 2009
The federal government today took a second shot at attempting to argue in court that alleged $50 billion fraudster Bernard Madoff ought be put behind bars while it gets its case against him into shape for court, and a second federal judge deflected the attempt to revoke the current bail conditions.
He need not have bothered to doff the vest. The whole thing took less than one hour. Then it was back out into the bitter cold, into the grey SUV and back up to the posh confines of his $7 million penthouse