Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 12/11/2010 7:36:07 AM PST by Ladycalif
Mark Madoff, the older of Bernard L. Madoff’s two sons, was found dead in his Manhattan apartment on Saturday, the second anniversary of the day his father was arrested for running a gigantic Ponzi scheme that shattered thousands of lives around the world.
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Thanks for staying up with this. Your posts and the link helps.
This reminds me of the ‘suicide’ of Amschel Rothschild, in 1996.
from http://www.beyondweird.com/conspiracy/cn08-68.html
A *Spotlight* inquiry has established that Rothschild, 41, a
billionaire investment banker and a noted sportsman in excellent
health, was discovered lifeless on the floor of the bathroom of
his suite at the luxurious Bristol Hotel in Paris on July 8 at
7:32 pm.
Police found that he had been strangled with the heavy cord of
his own bathrobe. One end of the cord was attached to a towel
rack, as if to suggest that Rothschild’s violent death was
self-inflicted.
“The [French] crime scene investigators never called it
‘suicide,’” reporter Theirry de Segonzac told *The Spotlight* in
a telephone interview from Paris. “After photographing the body,
one of the detectives gave the towel rack tied to the body a
strong tug. It came right out of the wall.”
Had Rothschild really attempted to hang himself from that rack,
he would have ended up with nothing worse than a couple of holes
in the wall, de Segonzac said.
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I doubt that any NYC apartment pipe could hold up a 200 lb man by a dog leash.
No suicide note, eh? Hmmm......methinks ol’ Bernie may have stolen from the wrong people.
The Wall Street Journal reported that brother Andrew Madoff was currently the head of operations at Black Umbrella, a consulting firm started by his fiancee, Catherine Hooper, after the Madoff scandal.
Lucid, grief- or guilt-driven suicide may be a lot of things, virtually all of them bad. But it ain’t cowardly.
Stupidly, he trusted everything to Madoff. More stupidly, he believed the SEC was keeping an eye on Madoff. Nonetheless, he's screwed.
Interesting. Thank you.
I was hanging around town just spendin’ my time. Out of a job not earning a dime.”
A line from the Strawberry Roan
His 2 year and 4 year old kids were named in the recovery lawsuits to make sure they didn’t receive any of the money. He punted on his kids’ defense and he took the coward’s way out.
The lawyers are looking at this as a missed opportunity to earn millions. Many tears will be shed over the financial loss of the canceled prosecution.
Large numbers of people go broke without killing themselves. He may have turned in his father in a cynical scheme like you said (I have not followed the case), but that doesn't really explain the suicide in my mind.
Not plausible. He had two years to stay alive and free.
That is what I am thinking.
Yeah you said that already.
Impressed us all mightily both times.
There are many thousands more of the fraudsters, banksters, Free Traitors, crooked politicians, and other liars, cheats, and thieves, who should be hanging from lamp posts and trees, from sea to shining sea; first for the willful destruction of our economy, and second for demanding that the taxpaying citizens of the USA reimburse for their theft.
I would have more sympathy for a rabid dog and its innocent pups.
The prosecution and lawsuits will continue so the lawyers will get their cut as always.
But now it will only be his wife and children who will have to defend themselves without the father to help defend them. They’ll lose the money in the civil proceedings. And it will be interesting to see if the criminal tax fraud charges will apply to the wife.
I bet you’re a big Oprah fan.
The wife wanted a divorce, mainly for financial reasons...hoping that she and the kids could get some of the swag before her husband was sued...look, Rut got to keep $ 2 mill, so maybe she figured that the courts might let her keep a few mill as well. Mark made millions form the fraud. There is no way that the two sons didn’t know what was going on. I suspect that when the jig was finally up, they hatched a plan, with Bernie’s concurrence, (heck, it was probably his idea) that they woudl be the ones to turn him in, to deflect suspicion from themselves.
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