ET Post from THREE YEARS AGO was: SEC investigating MADOFF FINANCIAL?

Word is the people who pulled out first will have to pay back some of the gains.

Im sure your principle is safe, but you may have to pay back you 10% returns...
 
I'm surprised the old goat did not take a 1 way ticket to a certain middle eastern country that can never be named publicly.

After all, he's already transferred the bulk of his wealth there.

Some one posted Ira rennerts house on another thread. He's another scumbag. A parasite of a higher order than "made-off".

Wall st.is hounded with parasites in expensive suits and forced nasal accents. The guys who control the music to the musical chairs called "the market".
 
Quote from trademonster:

Yes, I was lucky to be able to get all my money out but I know many people who will be hurt badly by this blow up.

Well, this is what happened. Back in 2005, I made an official request to close my account and withdraw all my funds at the end of the quarter. The reason I gave them was that I wanted to put my money in Treasury bills or money market fund. But the real reason why I wanted to close my account was that I smelled something fishy at Madoff. I poured over various trade confirmations that they gave me and I just could not understand how they made their money. What made it more suspicious was the consistency of their returns no matter what the market did. Maybe they did have a magical formula that made them do this, but I was just too uncomfortable.

When I submitted my request, I got a call from Mr. Madoff himself. Mind you, I only met him once when I first invested with the company and usually dealt with his son or his other cronies. He asked me what I was going to invest in and I told him I might just keep it in a safer investment for a while. He kept probing and probing so finally I told him respectfully that it was my business what I did with my money after I was done with him. He got very agitated and called me an idiot and mentioned that there were people who stood in line just to invest with him.

Well, that's the gist of it.

Not many people, however brilliant, can act as rationally as you did under the temptation of greed. You see that recurring theme in the housing and credit bubble.

It's telling that every time I've been approached by a "friend" about investing my money with them, the shadier the deal the more their pitch was based on emotion than logic. There's a kind of high school theatrics about this, where they use popularity and peer pressure to make you pretend like nothing is wrong. You really see the same with Madoff's sales, where the numbers are just for show and it actually comes down to "Don't you trust us?"
 
Why give that asshole 20 years & that rather pathetic possible $5m fine, just execute him & set an example for others :)

After this, who the hell is going to trust financial institutions with their life savings? More wood in the fire. The SEC couldn't have not known.

Makes you wonder how many others are covering up their tracks?

P.S. He couldn't have been the only one 'in the know', all others ought to be prosecuted & jailed for not disclosing illegal activities.
 
the guy was doing 'DUE DILIGENCE' and 'RESEARCH' with is life saving and millino dollar investment.

this madoff guy gave out fake bank statements etc.

Quote from lemeeeplay:

All I can say is WOW. This makes me question the motivation of the original poster that started this thread 3 years ago.

I bet the poster was either a whistle blower or someone trying to create a paper trail, like in a crime thriller. Here is how I see it: the protagonist was being followed and stalked in Switzerland by men in blacks (hired by Madoff), for having inside knowledge and decided to create a paper trail in case they whacked him.:D

But seriously, I hope trademonster is okay.
 
Quote from RetailBuilder:

The Philoctetes Center, which produced the video of the event where Bernie is shown talking about his integrity and the impossibilty of fraud (http://philoctetes.org/Home/), has announced that they have been financially ruined by his lack of integrity and the fraud he perpetrated.


Where and when did this happen?

:confused:
 
Just got this in email.






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