To PatrickHenry:

You have to wonder if the western world has gone crazy the way it bends over backwards to please Jewish people.  Other people such as muslims could only dream of being treated like this.  The following is from the United Kingdom:

“A Jewish couple are suing their neighbours in a block of flats, saying an automatic security light is keeping them prisoner in their home because it forces them to break their Sabbath rules.”

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1193357/Jewish-couple-sue-neighbours-imprisoning-automatic-hallway-light.html

To PatrickHenry:

Thanks for the information.  I used to read the New York Times and would often read articles where the subject would be identified as Jewish if it was someone to be proud of:  Beverly Sills (opera singer), Leonard Bernstein, Barbara Streisand, Albert Einstein, etc. 

Normally I would not expect someone’s religious or ethnic background to be identified.  Americans come from many different backgrounds from all over Europe and very rarely do we identify them by their ethnic or religious background.  Who knows what George Bush’s or Richard Nixon’s ethnic background is?  You can sometimes guess by the name.  Former secretary of state George Shultz (under Ronald Reagan) is probably of German background.

But since successful Jewish people who contribute good to society are identified as being Jewish, you would think people like Madoff or neo-cons such as Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle would also be identified as being Jewish.

This inconsistency seems to indicate that we should praise good Jews but not identify corrupt Jews.  I’m think if someone identified Madoff as Jewish he would risk being called an anti-semite if he’s not careful.

Former chairman, Christopher Cox and his elite SEC overseers of Wall Street enabled the likes of Bernie Maddoff, especially when the SEC had information about the on-going scheme. Cox et al are just as respnsible as BM for keeping the Ponzi scheme alive. They should be held accountable as co-conspirators.

I certainly don’t think he was railroaded and I do think he got at lest what he deserved, but I agree that his family have not accounted for the money they took out just before collapse. The statement that Madoff informed his family what he had done just before admitting it to the country sounds like “octopus ink” meant to distract the obvious complicity of his participating family. They knew what was happening a long time before this set piece.

I do agree that Madoff is only the most visiable and that the investment community and their substantial money inserted into our politics still, has provided cover for the hundreds if not thousands of people who worked in similiar skims and got away with it by paying to have rules left un-enforced or by out right buying re-writes of laws to absolve them of criminality. They are traitors to the country, much more than the religiously damaged “American Taliban”.

This would be a joke, but no one is laughing except the thieves. Oh and by the way substantial Jewish institutions were damaged by Madoff, so what is all of this “he has money in Isreal”, I would bet he has more money just off shore.

Where I live, two thugs robbed a jewelry store…and when the police I.D’d them…..They were charged with armed robbery & CONSPIRACY!!!!!

MadeOff and his CRIME FAMILY….“only ONE bad apple!!”

apparently, Conspiracy is only for the little people!!

He has assets in Israel?  Is he Jewish?

Actually, he’s just a fall guy. Other folks, (Chase) got out right on time, so they couldn’t be screwed. Madoff suckered some of the rich and famous, and for that he’s scapegoated.

a shonde. he should rot forever.