Seventy Five: Madoff Sentence

It occurs to this writer that 150 years for BM is ridiculous to the point of providing grounds for appeal. BM didn't murder or maim anyone. He didn't commit any crime which has ever justified capital punishment, which for him, 150 years certainly is. BM essentially gave greedy people what they wanted - comfortable double digit returns on their investments without doing much homework, or any other type of work for that matter.

If BM's victims has been mostly middle class people, like Bernie Ebbers or Jeff Skilling, Madoff would be doing 15 to 20 at a Club Fed. Bernie's real crime was making a lot of influential rich people look stupid.