Comments on: The Sob Stories of Madoff’s Wealthy Victims

By: Lynnie H.

Lynnie H. — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:38:49 +0000

I know what is like to wake up and have lost all your money. My ex-husband did that to me. It is horrible but I lived through it raising two infants with disabilities. What upsets me is the comment regarding friends bailling her out. She has friends with money that will pay for her hair. This woman's situation is sad but she has some support. Me, I never had anyone. None ever put their hand in their purse for me.

By: Lynnie H.

Lynnie H. — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:38:49 +0000

By: CB

CB — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:00:44 +0000

Yes, you are being unfair. But mostly you are just petty and jealous of this woman's former success and wealth. As you are unable to have the same success you are bitter at others who achieve more than you, and in your eyes, do not deserve it.

It is shameful to see people so consumed by schadenfreude – it amounts to saying people like this deserve to be robbed and destroyed. That makes you as bad as Madoff.

By: Kevin1978

Kevin1978 — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:13:03 +0000

If there was ever a silver lining to this Ponzi scheme, it's that Ms. Penney (aka, the former editor of SELF-ish Magazine) is finally realizing that kharma has caught up with her. This is a woman who threw people out on the street from their jobs at the magazine, including an art director who was 7 months pregant. Reason: NONE So Ms. Penney, here is the sweet revenge that so many of us who despise you have been waiting for. Take your white shirts, tie them into a rope and go hang yourself.

By: Mom

Mom — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:43:22 +0000

I'm betting Yolanda is illegal. Even if she isn't I'm also going to bet Alexandra hasn't been contributing to Yolanda Social Security or any other required payments. It'd going to suck a lot worse for Yolanda. She doesn't have a cottage to sell. Or watches and pearls.

I'd like to hear more of Yolanda's coming troubles. Even 'broke' Alexandra will be wealthy.

By: beacritic

beacritic — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 02:29:02 +0000

Here in Michigan I have about as much sympathy for her as she does for the auto workers

By: T Rustmaster

T Rustmaster — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:16:01 +0000

Madoff Carefully Selected HIs Victims.
Note that most of the truly wealthy “investors” had to work the “secret system” to be able to get Bernie to handle their money. Bernie only took money from those that were filthy rich. Very few of his investors had earned their money. For the most part, the money they had and lost was inherited or stolen in a courtroom.
Now there will be a big push by them for congress to make them rich again – with our money!
No, no, and no again. They knew the game and played. Perhaps they should all be asked to return the money that was “earned” and given to them by Uncle Bernie.

By: Steven Earl Salmony

Steven Earl Salmony — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:36:05 +0000

Perhaps hubris, corruption and greed have unexpectedly resulted in the colossal collapse of the global economy.

In a world in which too many politicians are posers; too many economists are deluded; too many business powerbrokers with great wealth are con artists, gamblers and cheats; and many too many absurdly enriched minions/’talking heads’ in the mainstream media parrot whatsoever serves political convenience and economic expediency, Jim Hansen's truth about global climate change is buried amid cascading disinformational and anti-informational garbage derived from a `tool box’ of pernicious rhetorical devices.

Do you think we have reached a point when we can say, however tentatively, that the global manmade economic colossus {a veritable and proverbial, modern Tower of Babel in all its glory} could crash before the overproduction, over-consumption and overpopulation activities of the human species worldwide collapse the frangible biological systems and finite physical resources of the planetary home God has blessed us to inhabit and not to ravage, I suppose?

Steven Earl Salmony

AWAREness Campaign on the Human Population,

established 2001

http://sustainabilityscience.org/content.html?c...

By: sozelli

sozelli — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:14:09 +0000

Attached is an article I wrote regarding the US tax implications
of risk management transactions of hedge fund managers. Some of the
tax analysis could apply to Madoff and his foreign investors as well.

Selva Ozelli, Esq, CPA

http://www.hedgeweek.com/download/259124/Commen...