Poll: Is Madoff's sentence too rough?
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Eh, maybe. I don't really believe in "deserving" punishment and suffering, and nothing's really gonna come of imprisoning him since everyone knows not to trust him and thus he can't repeat the crime. Yes he ruined lives, but throwing him in jail won't make things better other than satisfying animalistic bloodlust.
Then again, it makes the message "Don't scam people out of their money, or we will find and punish you," so it's a gray area.
Then again, it makes the message "Don't scam people out of their money, or we will find and punish you," so it's a gray area.
Newsweek has a nice article on this, basically he hired (or is going to hire) a prison consultant, to try and negotiate a lower security prison. Since the sentence he received means he'd go to a maximum security jail, and they'd prefer to get him down to medium to more or less give him a chance at serving his sentence a bit before dyingzacaron said:
But that same man did say that he is going to be assaulted, and whatever prison they choose for him will be his tomb, as it's very unlikely he'll make his first parole hearing (in 20 years).
But he deserves every single second of it.
He was convicted of 20 or so ~10 year crimes (Those aren't the actual numbers, but you get the idea). The punishments stack.Martymer said:
I want him to survive the (very impossible) 150 years just to see the looks on peoples faces when he gets out.
Let him get stabbed miserably in jail. He could've taken money from my family and friends who lived in that area. And since none of us are rich, we need that money.
I say nobody here can validate what he did. NOBODY.
I say nobody here can validate what he did. NOBODY.
I'm pretty sure a $65 Billion ponzi scheme effects far more people than a bank robbery...Krakyn said:
Saddest of all (to me personally) is that Madoff's scheme robbed Ellie Wiesel (Holocaust survivor, writer, political activist, and Nobel Laureate) of $15 million from his Foundation for Humanity organization. Talk about a guy who doesn't need assholes like Madoff to give him MORE problems than he's already had in life.
I don't feel that a man who "stole" 65 Million should get off "scott free" in any sense of the word but sending a 71 year old man to prison for 150 years strikes me as just odd. Just execute him if you want him dead that badly...
