Thursday, March 12, 2009

Madoff Is Guilty; Ordered to Jail

From Bloomberg:

Madoff’s guilty plea -- he repeated the word 11 times this morning -- marks the downfall of a once-acclaimed money manager who told the world his fortune came through an eponymous firm that specialized in making markets, trading securities and advising wealthy clients.

And for you folks who prefer your news to be of a more visual nature, the New York Post has some video:

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Bailout 2008 by David Jeffrey

Like a bloodied warrior,
laying broken and torn.

Like a dying soldier, hopeless and forlorn.

But the blood, it be green,
the color of money.

And the soldier is an economy,
and it is anything but funny.

Broken are it's people and shattered are their dreams.

Thanks to the ultra rich and their full proof schemes.

It is a tragedy with more pain to come.

Finance will be Hell, and their wills will be done

Kevin Cafferty said...

This is the first blog comment I've ever gotten in poetry form.