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AMERICAblog: Judge rules Madoff can continue house arrest

  • RevDrBillyBob · 10 months ago
    If people want to see this guy put into custody, they're just gonna hafta wait until he walks into a grocery store, takes a six-pack of beer, and strong-arms his way past a clerk at the cash register.
  • Steve_in_CNJ · 10 months ago
    or he could get a dark tan, say something in arabic and try to board an airplane.
  • cowboyneok · 10 months ago
    exactly right.
  • smiling_dog · 10 months ago
    I work in a prison and there are plenty of people doing life there for far less than this guy (or George W. Bush, for that matter).
  • Roddy McCorley · 10 months ago
    Ed Schultz had his legal consultant Norman Goldman on this morning, explaining this a bit more clearly. Ed shares your sense of outrage, pointing out that people have committed suicide because of what Madoff has done to them. Goldman explained that Madoff has made a deal with prosecutors in exchange for house arrest, and because he had so far honored that deal there were no grounds not to continue house arrest. Goldman also pointed out that you can point a toy gun at a convenience store clerk and get three to five years for armed robbery, while Madoff is sitting in his very comfortable home.

    For what all of that may be worth.
  • cowboyneok · 10 months ago
    Only poor people have to do serious jail time in America.
  • Older_Wiser · 10 months ago
    Maybe the judge and prosecutors ought to be under house arrest, too, eh?
  • Reason0Politics1 · 10 months ago
    there is NO accountability in the US if you have access.

    period.
  • LuZenMyMnd · 10 months ago
    I find the inequity of this really outrageous.

    How on earth is this guy afforded to live in luxury....in his own home while people are losing theirs? And he'll be there awhile. It'll take forever for the trial to start as they seek a non-partial jury (Riiiiiiiight), and Eventually he'll be convicted, but in the meantime; he'll remain on house arrest during his appeal. (I'm sure he can stretch that out for five years--don't forget...THIS IS accumulating as Time Served! LOL)
    ...AND he's working on a deal??? LOL Whewwww

    Simply Amazing....Only In America.

    Come to think of it....I'm no longer outraged, I'm almost laughing hysterically.
  • GustavMahler · 10 months ago
    wow, now if he had only stolen $350 billion, he would not have any charges at all!
    the judge is on the take, this is ridiculous.
  • beware of the leopard · 10 months ago
    No, he's really of the type who can't see another member of his "class" sitting in an 8'x10' jail cell, with only a slit in the outside wall and an 8"x8" square window in the door. Who said there weren't different stratas of class in our society?
  • paulbe · 10 months ago
    Zionist defendant, Zionist Judge. Of course nothing will happen. If he was a Muslim he would be in GITMO. Zionist Occupation Government of America in action for all of you to see. How obvious does it need to be?
  • beware of the leopard · 10 months ago
    Oh, good grief, you're a ZOGnut? That's funny. I haven't heard anyone reference ZOG since the 80's. Ah, the 80's, such an innocent time that was.
  • nikto · 10 months ago
    Whoi appointed the frikkin' judge, Herbert, Hoover?

    The American court system is so rigged-for-the-rich these days, it makes you want to puke.
  • MNUSA · 10 months ago
    Why should Judge Ellis send Madoff to jail? There are real criminals there!
  • naschkatzehussein · 10 months ago
    I would like to draw a contrast between Rezko and Madoff to show how political and unfair our justice system is. Rezko's crimes seem smaller in degree to me compared to Madoff's (or Abramoff's or Kenneth Lay's), yet he was denied bail and sent to jail before his trial. Since his conviction, he has virtually been in solitary confinement since last June and continuing in the present to get him to turn on Blagojevich and probably to see if he could have implicated Obama in something during the campaign. I don't mean to argue his innocence, but it all seems a bit Draconian to me. I think Martha Stewart got treatment out of scale with her crime also.