Did anyone else watch the FRONTLINE (PBS) program on how Bernie Madoff made off with $65 Billion through his 30 year old PONZI scheme?
First of all, I never realised how much the PONZ...
looks like the FONZ!
Secondly, Made-off ...
OK Madoff, sure looks a lot like George Washington..
whom of course adorns the almighty One Dollar Bill!
How freakin' appropeau is that?
One of the most annoying aspects of this story, is that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission let this udder bullsh*t go on for 30 years...
yes, useless as Tits On A Bull certainly comes to mind.
The SEC was tipped off in 1999 and actually cleared him after a 2 year investigation?? WTF?
It is obvious that because the "RICH" were all in on it, that nobody wanted to butcher this Cash Cow with it's 18% returns. It was an epidemic of MADoff CASH COW DISEASE and Money TALKED and his Bullsh*t walked.
This is a fascinating episode of Americana that once again proves the Golden Rule:
those who have the Gold, make the rules.
If the recent Market Meltdown and Financial Crisis had not forced his wealthy investors to start dipping in he might have actually got away with it.
He now faces spending the rest of his life in prison, and up to $170 billion in restitution..pffft....plus a killer Book & Movie Deal, a year on the Talk Show circuit, and then his doctors will invent some fancy-schmancy terminal illness that will allow him to serve his time in the lap of luxury.
Boo frickin' Hoo.
So, how much do you want to bet that Winkler is cast for the made for TV Movie?
This is one of those times when i don't care........
ReplyDeleteI'm taken aback by a lot of the virulence, lies, BS in the world lately. I mean it is always there, but right now it seems to be saying WTH? more often in my head, then I let it go..I need to. But I am loving the Fonz Ponz connection.
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The Ponz Fonz connection is cool! We had Happy Days in the Sandwich Islands when I was little! Fonzie rocks!
ReplyDeleteIs there any way you could spread your Mexican MANFLU bug onto him?
ReplyDeleteTell me what happened to your face?Who did that to you?lol
ReplyDeletethose who have the Gold, make the rules.
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Yep... and they get jobs as British politicians...
Sx
I'd rather see him play himself in a remake of "Weekend at Bernie's". The two clowns keeping him "alive" could wwork for the SEC, because "It would hurt the whole town" if anyone found out he was dead and tried to cash out.
ReplyDeleteSample dialog: "Do you know what would happen to us if anyone found out we let this go on, right under our noses? Heads will roll, and those heads will be us! You don't expect the Director to take the fall, do you? Grab an arm!"
The SEC made it a habit to go after small fish. There were more of them, and the cases were easier to prove, and they made such nice numbers on those monthly reports.
So who is Winkler?
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