STEAL FIFTY BILLION and you get 'home detention'

[spanone]

seems fair...:sarcasm:

Bernard Madoff, the financier accused of one of the biggest frauds in Wall Street history, will remain out on bail but will be placed under home detention and electronic monitoring, a federal judge ordered on Wednesday.

Federal District Judge Gabriel Gorenstein also ordered that Mr. Madoff’s wife, Ruth, surrender her passport by noon on Thursday.

In the order, the judge also modified the bail so that Mr. Madoff would not need two additional signatures to guarantee the bond, as initially required. Only his wife and his brother Peter, who worked at Mr. Madoff’s firm, had signed the guarantee as of Wednesday morning. His two sons, Mark and Andrew, had refused to sign, according to court papers.

Under the new bail package, Mr. Madoff and his wife agree to surrender their houses in Montauk, N.Y. and Palm Beach, Fla., if he flees in exchange for reducing the number of co-signers on his bail from four to two. He also agreed to a curfew of 7 p.m. through 9 a.m.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/18/business/18madoff.html?hp=&pagewanted=print

[bahrbearian]

1. I'm up with that.

He should be detained in my home.

[aquart]

2. Somebody hoping one of his victims has a gun?

[Octafish]

15. Either that or he has an ''accident.''

Or he gets "depressed" all of a sudden, like what happened to Cliff Baxter of ENRON.

[Wapsie B]

3. Ain't America great?

Swindle people out of $50 billion and get house arrest. Steal $50 from a convenience store and get the book thrown at ya. Corporate execs making decisions that cripple their company leaving with golden parachutes. A janitor who forgets to empty a trash bin or clean a sink just so and the fucking world is coming to an end. :eyes:

[spanone]

4. in a nutshell !!!

[JackRiddler]

12. Steal $50 from store three times, get life.

[monmouth]

5. The sons must be ticked, no inheritance to speak of...Question: Why

the curfew??? If he's home under monitoring why is there a curfew..

[earth mom]

6. This pisses me off to the nth degree. This is proof that there is no justice in the USA!

:puke:

[Vickers]

7. Bob Dylan: "Steal a little and they throw you in jail..."

"...steal a lot and they make you king."

[CrownPrinceBandar]

8. That's about $168 for every man, woman and child in America...

That's a significant amount of groceries or a utility bill payment, and this joker gets house arrest? There ain't no justice in this country.

[FiveGoodMen]

10. "There ain't no justice in this country" -- and they've stopped even trying to pretend there is.

We're cooked.

[acmavm]

9. Yep

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3648756

[stillcool]

11. Good thing he didn't have..

any weed.

[dembotoz]

13. jail is only for poor folk

and perhaps now OJ

[Jack Sprat]

14. While some scared teens

are handcuffed and taken to jail and eventually to prison for being caught with illegal drugs. There is an example of justice by class.

[Stinky The Clown]

16. He is charged, not convicted

I could not be a juror because I already think he is guilty. I hope he gets the worst punishment possible, but this isn't out of line.