I’m not inclined to be gentle.
Perhaps it’s the degree of the crime that makes me so callous and unforgiving – maybe it’s simple jealousy that he was born with a silver spoon and I wasn’t, in either case I’ll not shed a single tear for another rich prick that eats rope.
In a twisted sort of way, Bernie Madoff and his crime defined us as a generation; greedy, insensitive, and with a sense of entitlement far in excess of our true value.
Friend Bernie Madoff has just started paying for his crime – now that son Mark has been found dead and swinging from the chandelier.
… guilt or innocence is largely immaterial, the fact that Poppa Madoff didn’t clear the entire matter up, kept his sons in a perpetual stew of doubt and censure, and after two years of ever present dark cloud, son Mark opted out.
Our interest in this entire sordid affair is due to Mark Madoff being the President and part-owner of the Abel Reel company.
Suicide. Lot of it going around… If this sort of exercise is going to become fashionable, let me lay claim to two of them in my own family tree. No silver spoons yet, however – for which it now seems I ought to be thankful. If we cannot feel compassion for young Mark (whose humiliation and sacrifice will be but a footnote to his father’s banal crimes) we can at least spare a prayer for the continued success of the Abel Reel Co. That’s the sporting thing to do.
The news of the Madoff scandal caused a number of financiers to commit suicide, Christian Schnor being one of them.
As I see it, Poppa Madoff has three squares and a health plan which is more than some of his victims. With the death of his son, now he’s got some skin in the game.
“he was struggling to find steady employment”, found that tough did ya? Get in line or … sell the frigg’n 6 million apartment in NY!
suicide … the last selfish act by a greedy SOB. And with a 2 year old son in the bedroom.
No tears shed here.
No quibble with Madoff’s sentence or the disgust he arouses but just the thought of having to reconcile yourself to seeing out your days in prison AND your son’s suicide sends a shiver down my spine.
A lot of crooks evade karma. Not this one.