Madoff Victims Just Stupid and Greedy; Only Mcmahon, Fawcett Deserve Tears (Croisdale)

By NY) The Niagara Falls Reporter (Niagara Falls

Madoff Victims Just Stupid and Greedy; Only Mcmahon, Fawcett Deserve Tears (Croisdale) - NY) The Niagara Falls Reporter (Niagara Falls
  • Release Date: 2009-07-21
  • Genre: Reference

Description

Money does indeed make the world go round. At least that's the message I took out of a trio of national and news events that dominated the headlines the past few weeks. It all started when Bernie Madoff was sentenced to a staggering 150 years in prison for masterminding--maybe a better word would be dunderminding--an elaborate Ponzi scheme that cheated a bunch of folks out of $65 billion. The judge who sentenced Madoff said that the sentence was symbolic restitution for a crime that was "extraordinarily evil" and "took a staggering human toll."