Dying Ponzi king Bernard Madoff lost his bid for early release from prison Thursday when the judge who sentenced him to 150 years behind bars said he intended for him to die there and nothing has happened in the last 11 years to change his mind.
Judge Denny Chin, who now sits on the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, noted the continuing suffering of Madoff’s thousands of victims who lost $17.5 billion when a decades-long scheme that deceived them into thinking their money was invested properly was exposed in December 2008.
“I also believe that Mr. Madoff was never truly remorseful, and that he was only sorry that his life as he knew it was collapsing around him. Even at the end, he was trying to send more millions of his ill-gotten gains to family members, friends, and certain employees,” Chin wrote.
Madoff’s attorney expressed his client’s disappointment at the decision and appealed to President Trump to commute the sentence.
Read more at Market Watch.
{Matzav.com}
well duh
Well duh?
It’s so sad that some of us have been so affected by our long and bitter galus that we now think and believe like goyim, and we’ve forgotten how the Torah treats a ganav.