So Bernie gets his free place in a secure retirement home, but where is the money. Perhaps the feds should start digging on Mt Sion?

JKDNew Balls!

thanks marni, though i think even i, the suave statesman, may have upset you on some occasion in the past on a different thread ...... no doubt told you a stock you were raving about was a crock of shit! ...... Coffee Republic maybe

Actually, I think cynic is occaisionally interesting, but for an individual who wishes to be seen as "objective" he very emotional and is easy to bait.

Fred ..... not by you; after a while i'm afraid i just found you repetitive and boring

OH! 8-)

This is my opinion, dealing with Jewish people in business for over 30 years. Most jews tend to look down on none jews, they are arrogent, big headed, and have this I am superior air to themselves. A lot of jews who I have dealt with in business are thieving, lying, money grabbing types, and most of what has happened to their kind through the ages has been brought upon themselves for trying to F*** people.

The reason for writing this thread is to emphasise Madoff's deliberate exploitation of his jewish faith in cheating mainly jews out of their money. Most of those interviewed on CNBC and elsewhere are ordinary hard working people some elderly retired folk now verging on being destitute. It is too late for many of these people to learn lessons from this "crime of the century" unless Maoff repents by disclosing where the stolen money can be located.

this is turning into one of those rather nasty racist and heavy right wing threads, masquerading as some sort of moral crusade that we sadly see on this BB from time.

shame on the perpetrators, for of course this is how uninformed bigotry and prejudice is perpetuated down the generations.

===============

if halifax and a couple of others were more honest in their approach, they would leave out the jewish angle, for in truth (sic!) it is irrelevant

I wondered when cynic would play the race card.

it plays itself, rather as your own reaction did.
it is most noticeable how you and halifax are (totally?) unwilling - incapable would not be the truth - to post your inheritently valid point(s) without incorporating the (irrelevant) jewish angle.

the whole discussion is therefore diminished in its content and suspect in its claim to be seeking after the truth or similar.

cynic posted nasty racist and heavy right wing threads

Hardly played itself my boy

oh really?
please elucidate

at the same time perhaps you could inform us all how harping on about Madoff's jewish extraction enhances the discussion concerning his crime

Cynic,

I thought on one occasion, you claimed to be objective and yet when you read any criticism of Israel, Judaism or anybody of "Jewish origin", whether the latter is either racial or religious origin, you tend to be hypersensitive and quite often respond abusing the writer rather than the refuting facts which are stated.

Many think you are being deliberately unpleasant. (Which is your right.)

However, although, I don't like the tone of the thread and the remarks of Clubman, I "think" that Madoff pertained to be a Jew and probably, and the largest group of people, who Madoff abused, were Jewish. This would be as expected as ones friends, acquaintances and business colleagues, in a foreign country are usually firstly drawn from ones own culture.

I feel you, and one or two others, are all too often responding with a commonly heard chant, when anyone raises a criticism of anything Jewish or of Jewish origins.

Being critical of somebodys action, is not necessarily the same as trying diminishing or devalue the person


I recall working for/with one Jew, who I thought was a very unpleasant individual, while another Jew a few years later, offered me a contract, far more honest and reasonable than others in the same position.

Fred .... a small part of your post is correct, but overall you still fail to grasp the point i have made on 2/3 occasions here.

Madoff's plausibility came through his very successful and legitimate business background of setting up one of the most successful MM businesses in USA and also through being non-exec chairman of Nasdaq

that Madoff was jewish was pretty much irrelevant, other than it opened doors for him in the jewish community, who of course were far from being the only victims.

how and why SEC chose to ignore all the evidence put before them (perhaps) 10 years ago remains to be exposed, though i am sure it will be in due course

==============

overall, i wonder if Madoff was really the most successful con man the world has ever seen.

The South Sea Company, admittedly a corporation, would surely have made him look an amateur in financial terms, and for sheer audacity, the likes of Gregor MacGregor and Victor Lustig, to name just two, could probably have taught Madoff a thing or two.

The Pope met with his Cardinals to discuss a proposal from Benjamin Netanyahu, the leader of Israel.

"Your Holiness", said one of his Cardinals, Mr. Netanyahu wants to challenge you to a game of golf to show the friendship and ecumenical spirit shared by the Jewish and Catholic faiths."

The Pope thought this was a good idea, but he had never held a golf club in his hand. "Don't we have a Cardinal
to represent me?" he asked.

"None that plays very well," a Cardinal replied. "But," he added, "there is a man named Jack Nicklaus, an American golfer who is a devout Catholic. We can offer to make him a Cardinal, then ask him to play Mr. Netanyahu as your personal representative. In addition,
to showing our spirit of cooperation, we'll also win the match."

Everyone agreed it was a good idea. The call was made. Of course, Nicklaus was honored and agreed to play. The day after the match, Nicklaus reported to the Vatican to inform the Pope of the result. "I have some good news and some bad news, your Holiness," said the
golfer.

"Tell me the good news first, Cardinal
Nicklaus," said the Pope.

"Well, your Holiness, I don't like to brag, but even though I've played some pretty terrific rounds of golf in my life, this was the best I have ever played, by far. I must've been inspired from above. My drives were long and true, my irons were accurate and purposeful, and my putting was perfect. With all due respect, my play was truly miraculous.

"There's bad news?", the Pope asked.

"Yes," Nicklaus sighed. "I lost to Rabbi Tiger Woods by three strokes."

And another to lighten the mood.................

A mortician was working late one night. It was his job to examine the dead bodies before they were sent off to be buried or cremated.


As he examined the body of Mr. Schwartz, who was about to be cremated, he made an amazing discovery: Schwartz had the longest private part he had ever Seen!

"I'm sorry Mr. Schwartz," said the mortician, "But I can't send you off to be cremated with a tremendously huge private part like this. It has to be saved for posterity." And with that the coroner used his tools to remove the dead man's schlong.

The coroner stuffed his prize into a briefcase and took it home. The first person he showed was his wife. "I have something to show you that you won't believe," he said, and opened his briefcase.

"Oh my God!" she screamed, "Schwartz is dead!"

I cant stop finding them now, but this is good one..................

The madam of a brothel answered the ring of the bell and, on opening the door, she found standing there on the threshold, an ancient, bearded gentleman in rabbi's garb.
"May I come in?" asked the rabbi gently in an aged, quavering voice.
Feeling a little confused, the madam said, "But rabbi, surely you must be in the wrong place. Here is where we--"
"I know what you do here," interrupted the rabbi. "You don't think I came here for chopped liver, do you? Bring on the girls."
Still confused, but understanding her professional duties, the madam had several of her girls line up for the rabbi. The rabbi tottered from one girl to another until he reached Rosie, a large redhead with enormous breasts. He looked at her with appreciation and pointed, "Good! I'll take those."
The rabbi paid out the necessary money and Rosie led him upstairs. She helped him off with his coat and hung it up carefully on the nail on the door. Then she helped him off with the rest of his clothes and got into bed. There, to Rosie's astonishment, the rabbi performed with an adroitness and a skill that was unbelievable. In fact, Rosie, a hardened professional, found herself surprised into orgasm.
As they lay in bed a few minutes afterwards, relaxing, Rosie said, "How old are you, rabbi?" The rabbi said, "God has been good to me. I am eighty-eight years old." "That is certainly amazing. Listen, rabbi, if you're ever in the neighbourhood again and if you should feel in the mood, please ask for me--Rosie. I would be delighted to oblige you." The rabbi said, with a certain hauteur, "What do you mean, if I should be in the mood again? Let me sleep for five minutes right now and, believe me, I will be in the mood again." Really, rabbi? Then please take a nap."
The rabbi adjusted himself into a relaxed position, face up, placed his arms across his chest and then said, "Wait one minute. This is important. While I'm asleep, scoop up my testicles with your right hand and hold them an inch above the sheet, without moving them. Keep them absolutely motionless."
Of course, rabbi," said Rosie, and did as she was told, holding the rabbi's testicles free of the sheet for five minutes as the rabbi slept. Then he woke with a start and said, "I'm ready." And so he was, for to Rosie's delight he was even better the second time than the first.
As she lay panting, Rosie said, "It was wonderful, rabbi, but one thing I don't understand. Why was it necessary to hold your testicles motionless above the sheet while you were sleeping?" "Oh that," said the rabbi. "Well, you are a nice girl and I like you very much. Still, the truth is I don't know you very well, and over there, in my coat, hanging on the hook on the door, is a thousand pounds in cash."

And my favourite one, a bit off thread I admit.....................

Somebody's seen my game

It was a sunny morning, a little before 8:00 AM, on the first hole of a busy course, and I was beginning my pre-shot routine, visualizing my upcoming shot when a piercing voice came over the clubhouse loudspeaker:

"Would the gentleman on the women's tee please back up to the men's tee, please?"

I could feel every eye on the course looking at me. I was still deep in my routine, seemingly impervious to the interruption.

Again the announcement: "Would the man on the women's tee please back up to the men's tee, please!"

I simply ignored the guy and kept concentrating, when once more the man yelled, "Would the man on the women's tee please back up to the men's tee, please!"

I finally stopped, turned, cupped my hands and shouted back....

"Would the asshole with the microphone kindly keep quiet and let me play my second shot?!"

cynic you are of course entitled to your view of Madoff, however it has become quite apparent from interviews with his jewish victims that they would not have invested their savings with his firm had he not been a jew.

in that respect, i would possibly or even probably not disagree with you, especially with regard to the "moms and pops".
however, had Madoff been of a different persuasion or similar, he would assuredly have been just as successful a swindler, though the victims would (generally) have been different - which is the point i have been trying to make from the off

and of course, had SEC not been so willfully purblind to factual evidence, they would have acted years ago