Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Madoff Guilty: 70 year old to get life sentence, or 150 years - so what!

NVDL: A bit late. The damage is done, the old man has lived it up his whole life. If there are any other Swindlers out there I suggest they start running for the hills.
clipped from www.nytimes.com

Bernard L. Madoff is facing life in prison for operating a vast Ponzi scheme that began at least 20 years ago and consumed billions of dollars of other people’s money.

While his fate will not be certain until he is sentenced, his lawyer told a federal judge on Tuesday that he intended to plead guilty on Thursday to all the criminal charges that federal prosecutors had filed against him — a list that could yield a prison sentence of 150 years.

In all, Mr. Madoff was charged with 11 felony counts, including securities fraud, money laundering and perjury. Under federal sentencing guidelines, those crimes would yield a life sentence for the 70-year-old trader.

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