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devilgrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-29-09 12:07 PM Original message |
Please explain: How Madoff gets 150 years and ENRON fuckers get a slap on the wrist. |
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ingac70 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-29-09 12:09 PM Response to Original message |
1. More high profile/ rich people.... |
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Junkdrawer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-29-09 12:11 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Bingo. n/t |
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AngryOldDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-29-09 12:15 PM Response to Reply #1 |
8. Yep. |
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TransitJohn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-29-09 12:21 PM Response to Reply #1 |
11. Agree |
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glowing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-29-09 12:10 PM Response to Original message |
2. Its all about the depth of your theft and pockets. No one from BoA, Chase, |
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rurallib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-29-09 12:10 PM Response to Original message |
3. Madoff didn't pay off the right people - like Kenny-boy did Bush. |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-29-09 12:14 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. my thought as well |
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baldguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-29-09 12:32 PM Response to Reply #3 |
18. bingo |
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notadmblnd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-29-09 12:13 PM Response to Original message |
5. bush isn't pretzledent anymore |
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rcrush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-29-09 12:14 PM Response to Original message |
6. Madoff is a fall guy |
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Democracyinkind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-29-09 12:16 PM Response to Original message |
9. ENRON screwed THE PEOPLE, Maddoff screwed some RICH and made others RICHER |
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GodlessBiker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-29-09 12:17 PM Response to Original message |
10. Skilling got 24 years. For a man of his age, that's not chump change. |
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el_bryanto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-29-09 12:21 PM Response to Original message |
12. I think it has to do with the actual criminality |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-29-09 02:16 PM Response to Reply #12 |
30. "seem to have thought their scheme was actually working" - to line their pockets. |
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Catherine Vincent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-29-09 12:21 PM Response to Original message |
13. I think the 150 years is a warning to others out there that's even thinking about what Madoff did |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-29-09 12:23 PM Response to Original message |
14. Didn't the head of Enron die shortly before some kind of trial? |
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4lbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-29-09 12:24 PM Response to Original message |
15. You also have to look at the scale of the "ripoff". |
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scheming daemons (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-29-09 12:25 PM Response to Original message |
16. Enron fuckers had a friend in the White House |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-29-09 12:28 PM Response to Original message |
17. Well I'm SURE ENRON had nothing to do with the CEO knowing certain people. |
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Bicoastal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-29-09 12:32 PM Response to Original message |
19. How about a SERIOUS response for a change? |
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HughBeaumont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-29-09 02:10 PM Response to Reply #19 |
27. Someone once said "There's never just one cockroach". |
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WeDidIt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-29-09 12:34 PM Response to Original message |
20. Because the laws regarding this sort of thing changed after Enron |
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IdaBriggs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-29-09 12:35 PM Response to Original message |
21. Better lawyers. nt |
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Political Heretic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-29-09 12:39 PM Response to Original message |
22. Madoff screwed the wrong people -- rich people. |
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spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-29-09 12:40 PM Response to Original message |
23. because that was the bu$h* dept of justice |
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tridim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-29-09 12:53 PM Response to Original message |
24. No kidding, Enron destroyed an entire state (among other things) |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-29-09 01:49 PM Response to Original message |
25. it works like this... |
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Hekate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-29-09 01:59 PM Response to Original message |
26. In my dreams, the Enron case gets revisited... nt |
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HamdenRice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-29-09 02:10 PM Response to Original message |
28. Very different offenses. Enron was securities violations. Madoff was outright theft. |
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go west young man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-29-09 02:10 PM Response to Original message |
29. Madoff was "needed" by the media and big banks to cover up the |
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