Madoff gets his due and other noteworthy news.
June 29, 2009 by Dusty
Bernie was sentenced to 150 years this morning. That was the maximum he could be given.
I wonder if that sentence will make his victims feel better, somehow I doubt it. His wife Ruth finally released a statement this morning about her husband’s crime. You can read the entire statement here. I really can’t muster any sympathy for Ruthie.
Joe Jackson is lower than pond scum. He is already getting his worthless, child-beating ass on the tv as much as possible, showing up at the BET awards show last night and having a daily presser when possible out in front of the families Encino enclave. Al Sharpton is also getting his share of tv time as is Jesse Jackson (no relation but I bet he wishes he was).
The biggest media circus in the last decade will now start. Who gets those three little children that lived in a fairytale bubble? Who gets any money..or rather.. is there any money to hand out? Not waisting any time, Joe and Katherine Jackson have filed a probate order and gotten temporary custody of the three children. It’s gonna get real ugly.
Iraq is preparing for our soldiers to start pulling out of their cities tomorrow. This news is scary in that all hell might break loose now that Iraqi police will be in charge. I worry about this, I worry that the innocent will suffer. I worry that our soldiers will be sitting ducks. I just worry period. But I want them all home now..all our soldiers. Don’t leave them sitting in fortresses, just bring them home..NOW.
Finally Tricky Dick Nixon has more of his musings released. I have been reading the transcripts over at the NYT and they are a friggin trip. Get this quote from a Philippines head honcho during the time Marcos took control of the government:
ROMULO: You see, democracy, really, American democracy, is for a mature, highly developed, affluent society.
NIXON: Yes.
ROMULO: For a developing society, you need someone with strength.
Affluent society? Give me an effin break dude. Did anyone know there is a website devoted to the Nixon tapes? Yep…check it out here
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On the bright side, Billy Mays is dead.
Who says there’s no good news any more?
Robb! Talking shit about the dead is bad form m’dear.
Dusty´s last blog ..Madoff gets his due and other noteworthy news.
Michael Jackson is being canonized by media/marketers and a gullible consuming public swallows every bit of it, hook, line and sinker. He should be remembered as multi faceted human being, with talents to attract attention and entertain, but also with many human failings. The manner in which he comported himself in his life was aberrant in my view and it made him an easy target to mock. But there is no point in speaking ill of the dead, and in a hundred years he will just be a small footnote to history.
Joe Jackson’s comportment on the BET Awards red carpet Sunday, and then in front of the Encino compound on Monday was very telling of who he is and will always be, an inarticulate, cold, grasping opportunist, and it offers a lot of insight in to what the formative years for all the Jackson children might have been like.
Joe Jackson will attempt to wring out every last opportunity to make a buck playing the role of the patriarch of the grieving family, but when the immediate publicity opportunities disappear, he will disappear back to Las Vegas, leaving Katherine Jackson to care for the extended family in Encino.
In terms of Bernie Madoff, I find it interesting that he got more time than many people who have been convicted of murder (under varying circumstances, such as second degree, or manslaughter) and who get shorter sentences and quite often make parole. It seems to send a message, you can get away with killing someone unknown to the general public, but don’t ever contemplate taking a wealthy man’s treasure from him.
Bernie does deserve a stiff sentence, the 150 years may be overkill though. What I want to see next is the Feds going after everyone who facilitated Bernie in this. Bernie alone did not cook the books, produce false trading records and false account statements all by himself. A scam of this financial magnitude, over this great a span of time had to have a lot of cooperating cohorts, and they all need to go to jail.
It seems to send a message, you can get away with killing someone unknown to the general public, but don’t ever contemplate taking a wealthy man’s treasure from him. I think you are right BF..it’s major overkill.
But, not all his victims were rich..and yes, the rest of the co-conspirators should be tried as well. But didn’t he include in his plea bargain that the feds wouldn’t go after his wife and kids?
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