Little Sympathy Among Madoff Investors

[megamike91]

If I ever make a cool million or 2, I won't invest it. I'll just put it in different banks at the FDIC maximum and live off the interest. I won't live big either. That's my motto "earn like a king, live in shit."

[csilviu1]

u should suicide all u sick greedy degenerate...this was happening because the people are so greedy and they don t care and they don t ask question how Madoff is making so much profit in a down market...

Congratulations for Madoff,a real genius!!!

[DSkeptic86]

Moreover, God doesn't like ugly. Usually con-artists and crooks try to dupe one another. Madoff just seemed to be the smarter one, though what he did was wrong. Now this doesn't apply to all that loss their saving, BUT THINK ABOUT THE CROOKS WHO LOSS THEIR INVESTMENTS AND HOW THEY GOT RICH BY SWINDLING OTHER PEOPLE - THE POOR. WELL, HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF SHALL I SAY?

[DSkeptic86]

Listen, I'm a black person who grew up in poverty in New York. Poverty is all I knew. My mother was on welfare, received food stamps and medicaid, but guess what? We were happy. We weren't happy because of the state that we were in. Sometimes having the riches of this world bring misery and pain. Just think about this for a moment. IDIOTS COMMITTING SUICIDE BECAUSE THEY LOSS THEIR LIFE'S SAVINGS. Is it worth it?

[DoshUnScripted]

MAKES ME WONDER:

How did the Madoff investors make their millions in the first place.

[mrman3810]

what these victims of madoff dont understand is that people are pissed off at them not because of what happen but how you could of avoid this problem of being scammed. i think that if bernie madoff had a ebay feedback that said con man dont invested these people would still do it because they are racist, sexist and classist so now they got scammed and now BOO HOO. we are broke. give me a fucking break why would give 1billion to a red flag fuck like madoff. because he promise you shit andgotshit

[begood20000]

Even if it wasn't a ponzi scheme. Why did a lot of people involved put all their money into it? That's insane

[mrman3810]

@begood20000 because B they were fucking greedy you know the answer to that and they played into madoff rules of secrets and lies not putting him in the prepsectives for investors this was just a bunch of stupid ass greedy people who are lazy and most of all crying about shit that is done everyday with the poor.

[begood20000]

@mrman3810 I was more pointing to why you would put all your eggs in one basket.

[mrman3810]

@begood20000 well because they fucking greedy for more money you dont need a fucking genius to figure that one out dipshit

[Words2soul]

all those people that lost money with him are nothing but the same as him Greedy n LAZY

[lcpmarketinggroup]

I agree with Andriane Biondo statement, 'peoples lives are ruin'. Even if Madoff spend 300 years in jail or had the death penalty imposed upon him, justice will never exist here because the victims lost so much here (and I am not talking just about their investment).

[cmwen]

These people never heard about: never put all your eggs in the same basket? Classic yes, but still true...

[tjenk712]

Why are these people all Jews?

[bxccapricorn]

good now u know people who r less fortunate n poor not tbecuz they r lazy n god tests the poor n rich everyday to be generous now u knw im so happy most of them lost their money.

[someoneinlv]

They should be in jail with him....People who made millions MUST know he have to be doing something illegal to achieve 10%+ on their investment CONSTANTLY ...It is IMPOSSIBLE to get this kind of return without insider trading in bad economy while the prime rate 1%.....

He told them not to ask questions..they agreed...why?????....because they thought he was doing something illegal and they didn't want to know about it, so they won't get in trouble... well...they got what they deserve....

[LeftLiberalSoCal]

0:58

I'm sure she is. It's not easy going from riches to rags...

[johnsmdm]

keep yoy noses out of the jews business...

[gix500]

the guy probably gave billions worth of cash and stones to contacts, maybe also donated to israel to some organisation, 50 billion dont just disappear

[mrman3810]

Madoff should have a fucking holiday. i just love that people are in denial that one...madoff spent your fucking money on the houses, boats, cars, the life. your money is gone. another thing that they are in denial about is that they let their greed get out of hand. this is a perfect example of how madoff use peoples greed and took the paper. he is our modern day robin hood. he was already super rich before he took money lol that is what so funny. u are my hero

[questx14]

I LOVE THAT GUY...HE CARRIED THOSE MUTHERFUKERS FOR 20YRS..IM GLAD BERNARD TOOK ALL THERE FUKIN MONEY THOSE GREEDY BASTARDS..I CAN AUSRE YOU THAT ALL THOSE GREEDY BASTARDS THAT BERNARD TOOK FROM..THEY WERE ALL SELFISH AND FOR THAT, THATS WHAT THEY GET. GREAT JOB BERNARD

[FuiFuiMIKE]

greedy fat pigs....couldn't resist his unbeatable high returns. lesson learnt

[victorsblock]

@FuiFuiMIKE

the desire to make money doesn't make one greedy.Only if the desire causes you to cheat someone for it. madoff was not an unknown commodity. He had a long track record of success. many smart people who worked terribly hard for their money got screwed. Madoff was greedy, not his victims.

"greedy fat pigs"? are you a communist?

[mikeygeneral]

fuck em all. I never had any money so i don't know the feeling. One thing i do know is that these Investors are the same people who wouldn't even spit at us poor folks in the street. so fuck em all.

SoUr GrApEs - LOL

[GREATWHITEish]

lot of these investors were victims of their own GREED.......when things were going "well" they reveled in their 10% returns and didn't ask questions.....so let's not blame MAdoff 100%.....take responsibility for your greed and stupidity...

[PigBeata]

I don't see why people need some much money. Money hunger people never become satisfied.

[BeethovenIsGod]

That's because they have no real happiness in their lives. It is likely they don't have meaningful relationships or hobbies. They delude themselves into thinking that having so much money makes them better than others. They think that they can achieve happiness by buying as many unnecessary luxuries as they can. Every play Sims? Those one dimensional characters in the game exist in real life. They are the Madoff victims among others.

[PungiFungi]

Somehow It is hard for me to sympathize with individuals who apparently lost millions of their live savings with Madoff. I mean, if you have several million dollars already, that is not enough?

[jack1979x]

SUICIDE??? what are you stupid??? so you lost your money ???soo???? money is paper that could be made again.. discusting..

[neetrab]

@jack1979x - i'm 30 and have a nice life.. but i DO understand her point and your point.. we should remember that many of these investors probably feel like their lives are going down and will never recover. If we are not in their shoes.. we may not say "so.. money is paper that coule be made again"... let's step in their shoes and see if we are saying the same thing.. i don't know you and you don't know me.. and what you said is true. i think some people haven't grown up with the same values

[truthisaliar2]

The greed that flows through his veins flows just as easily in yours. Your either Greedy or your Needy , which one are you ?

[msav111]

sell that top hat of yours, u might pay next months rent..

[allwf]

houhouhou, i`m happy too because those egomaniac get swindled those hypocrites liars and narcistes who about themselves, great job madoo

[Kryptonian250]

Those little lips will sure make him popular in prison. Hell he might be cuddling next to some guy named Bubba with a ten inch dick for the next 150 years.

[150133]

These people need to realize that money is nothing in this world. I'm broke but I still love this life. Don't treat your possessions like God, But treat your God like a possession.

[wolgreth]

150 years a bit overkill?

Sure Bernard Madoff is a scumbag but he didn't kill anybody; just stole millions of dollars. 20 years would be a better term.

[oldjoe5]

He ruined the lives of thousands of pensioners. Did much more damage to many more people than any murderer or rapist

[MrSky]

Are you kidding? If you worked 40 years and saved your money with Madoff and lost them all, what would you think?

Just kill me 40 years early and save me all that work.

BTW, 65 Billions, that's a B.

[inkey2]

an interesting thought......if Madoff had just died of natural causes.....before this had come to light......it would be interesting to know if the scam just would have played on by "someone"

[MishuTaste]

At 1:01. She's wearing a $2000 outfit and she's on food stamps.

[ixfxi]

preach on brotha! for fucks sake, hearing these people complain about being poor or wanting to commit suicide over money? give me a break, imagine what folks in south central LA are saying when they see shit like this "oooh i cant live anymore because im broke, im just going to kill myself" ........ i have no pity for people that risk losing their savings. its very easy, save your savings if you value it. risk things you dont care about.

[Andy4Tune]

ixfxi - thats right

I don't give a flying f... about people that willingly gamble their money. He stole from idiots, and he got 150 years in prison.

Armed robbers get only 4 and gets out after 2.5, and that's justice

Nobody gives a shit about people lives, only money that counts

The hypocrisy of these people makes me sick

[kikechavillo]

@ixfxi man i understand your point but when you lose your life savings, meaning that you probably worked hard your hole life and then trusted in someone to manage it and then lose it all you i guess you see your hole life go to the gutter, that was money that could have paid charities or things of the sort, and also take care of their future family, answer me this, how would you feel if you loose something you have worked for very hard your hole life???

[ixfxi]

@kikechavillo ...... i wouldnt invest my life savings in charity nor would i invest it in anything for that matter, ide simply SAVE it. thats why its called life savings, not life investments.

[decius1234]

@ixfxi I suppose it's easy to knock a person's reaction to losing something important to them they've invested in when you have no such investments and therefore no success and are content working at burger king and spending your weekly wages on kool-aid and beer... but for grown ups, little one, money can be a very important relative to one's survival.

[ixfxi]

@decius1234 hey man, i dont work at burger king.  i work at WacArnolds... and guess what, the rib sandwhich is comin back on tuesday and guess who aint gettin one!

[decius1234]

@ixfxi Who you fuckin, OJ?

[I3lueGhost]

@ixfxi thats a fail idea ... theres a huge different between being born with nothing and working your whole life gaining whatever you made and having it all swindled instantly .. i'd want madoff murdered

[abonawas]

@ixfxi i called my fund manager today and told him i wanted to know where exactly is he putting my money and i asked many questuons...he says to go and read the prospectus....i saidf no i want to hear it in peerson....when he became a little stiff i said ok mate i am done here and i withdrew all my fund immediately....he tried to sweet talk his way to get in again but i spat inj his face over the phone and told him to go fuck himslef

[mastmedia]

@ixfxi Lack of compassion is the problem with society today.

Your options become less and less in America as you mature in age. Who wants to start all over at the end of their life. You can never have enough saved for retirrment even when taking risk in the US. It's a sad reality.

There's always a reason or excuse for others misfortune until we find ourselves betrayed by the ones we trust. When it happens to us its a different story. That's when we expect the empathy we refuse to give.

[Bistol1]

@ixfxi well said. It is greed that brought them to this. Madoff was smarter than them although I disaprove of what he did. But somehow I like him making a fool out of these suckers. Hahaha.

[duba3988]

yeah that shit is ridiculous, what a bitch.

[mickeyb1000]

She probably bought the outfit before she lost all her savings didn't she.

[zzzbbb123456]

I don´t feel sorry for non of them. There are allot of americans that got it worse.

[PopeyeCove]

Madoff is one evil fuck. Hopefully he'll be someone's bitch in prison. Son of a rotten bitch!

[caganb]

I hope he lives 75 more years.  Na Ha Ha

[Cheiracanthium]

Don't give your money to someone else.

[inkey2]

to Cheiracanthium: damn right...don't give your money to someone else. I had some money invested with my bosses brother. He had a legit real estate business. I was getting great interest. The guy DROPS DEAD at 40 years old from a heart attack. I had some very nervous weeks with no sleep. I "finally" did get my money back but it could have gone either way

[ralph0865]

BTW alot of the money these jews invested with Madoff was earned through the slaving of gentiles. So these jewish investors got what they deserved, especially those bums in Palm Beach.

[ralph0865]

Greed for huge unreasonable returns brought the investors down, so Cynmark24, i'd shut the fuck up if i was you!

[localbroadcast]

there was a nice bicycle that coasted past.... u might wanna invest...

[hstemann]

If America can payback, the rest of the world would be a wonderful place.

[laurasIs2c]

Let it be learned that this man had every advantage and blessing anyone could experience on the planet, health, opportunity, talent, friends, culture, education, intelegence etc. and he still was a cunning theif. Let it be understood that bad is bad and should be treated like other criminals that steel with a gun. At the very least consider creating laws that discontinue access to public monies to any executive who files bankruptcy or is found irresponsible to the point of personal advantage.

[rick136nyc]

She can live in my 98 Jeep Cherokee. I will be nice snug in my bed, and the former millionaire will be sleeping in my car. Nice...

[rick136nyc]

Screw the investors, they knew what he was doing and what he was all about. How do you give millions to a guy and not investigate what he is all about. They knkew, not all, but the majority did. How can charities give 50 million to Madoff when the money was used for charity? Swiss banks gave Bernie millions, lol. All suckers. All suckers. Greedy suckers.

[PRS3333]

It is so difficult to feel bad for people who were not hard workers but just were part of the cult of greed, not doing any work and collecting money.

[spellerlittlewing]

bo hoo hoo

they r so greedy thought they could get richer whats the matter might have to live the way real people do

wow what a life want a 70yr old man die in jail

it's ur fault why put all ur eggs in 1 basket thought u guys were so smaart with ur college degrees

[fillosofert]

What is wrong with killing future terrorists? Muslim= future terrorist

[kalcom2]

Dont just talk the talk - walk the walk - if youre gonna threaten to commit suicide because you thought you were a smarter investor than the average joe dont talk about it - do it - and do it on prime time tv where we can all see it - or shut up.

[daderone]

you are a buffoon who thinks saying vile things will get you the attention you lack. congrats. feel better?

[daderone]

for making animals fight to the death for his own entertainment? right?

Couldn't you have googled that?

[trikkelight]

for being sadistic

[thereallurker]

Only to prison, he should receive a death sentence. The rich get off so easy.

[arequipa1]

oh give me a break...

[GilbertsonDerick]

Madoff is to a murderer as his victims are as to those who walk in the ghetto after dark.

Nonetheless, lethal injection would have sufficed.

[SamuelConcepcion]

The Madoff victims all deserve their financial losses. They were all lazy and greedy; they were all avoiding work - they just wanted their monies to work for them - i.e., passive income. They simply didn't want to live by the sweat of their brows. I say, good for them, they all lost their monies!! Hurrah for Madoff - he was very smart indeed!

[arequipa1]

fuck you idiot. some of them were retired.

[daderone]

". . " they are human beings

[Cynmark24]

Most Madoff investors worked their entire lives to have the money to invest with him in the first place. How do you think they got the money to invest? You think there is something wrong with working, then investing and saving? Blame Madoff, blame the govt for "blessing" Madoff so many times over. And if the govt ever fails you, because you depended upon it for something, don't come crying.

[Hoopskidoodle]

Ha ha, these greedy fuckers thought that they were getting 10% - 20% returns on their investments in the midst of a recession.

[napajedla]

you should not be gready ..bitch

[marniespeaks]

buyer beware - Wall Street is a Casino

the only safety net is European, Canadian and Israeli style socialism

fair housing - free education - living wage jobs and health care

Any republicans here think these people who were taken by Madoff deserve what they got?

[thermalfreek]

Bonny Ghosh you are really HOT!!!

[khc725282]

this is very sad

cuffing and putting him in jail is justice?

[daderone]

i don't care how much time he is behind bars he should have to pay back the people he stole from. Thats horrible.

[agentbong138]

Yeah, cause that is real doable. Do you understand what happened here? How would he pay back over 50Billion dollars with nothing?

[daderone]

what do you mean with nothing? He is living in a cardboard box and wearing slippers?

He has something, whatever was his should be divided amongst those he ripped off. I don't care if he has to get a prison job, he should have to work to give restitution to those he injured.

[Hoopskidoodle]

They got what they deserved.

The could have put some of their money into gold and diamonds. But they wanted maximum returns. They wanted big bucks, big bucks... oh no, it's the Whammy!

[arequipa1]

oh GOD FORBID people try and get the maximum return for their investment.

[Hoopskidoodle]

They were greedy vultures, whose mad lust for money clouded their reason. A modicum of common sense would have warned them that the returns they were supposedly getting were either illusory or the result of criminal activity... or, as it turned out, both.

[arequipa1]

if you're so offended, you could move to cuba. come on get real. you probably get mad because you think pro athletes get paid too much, too.

[Hoopskidoodle]

You're a retard. I don't care how much anyone makes. My point, dumb-ass, was that those people were foolish in that they should have known that such returns were highly suspicious in a down economy.

Does it hurt to be that stupid?

[arequipa1]

yes, you do CLEARLY care how much people make. it's not that difficult to see. you've got class envy dripping out your slack jaw; clean it up. and even though we're in a down economy, there are still industries that aren't affected as badly and who do make a profit. maybe if the thought of others making more than you infuriates you so, you should go get an advanced degree or something.

[Hoopskidoodle]

Clearly, you're still a wildly presumptuous retard, incapable of understanding the point that I made. You know fuck-all about me and my motives, dummy.

[arequipa1]

sure thing pal

[sharinganclan213]

still, its not their fault their lives were ruined. an evil person was luring them into this.

[51362879]

Sure an evil person led them into this, but the investors wer gullible enough to think that Bernie would make them richer overnight, and didn't investigate any laws or trusts that had to do with him, thinking they could bypass anything reasonable by putting their total financial trust in this guy. Bernie may have been a greedy crook, but the people he took down look like they were greedier.Elie Weisel said:"We gave him everything, we thought he was God, we trusted everything in his hands,"

[Cynmark24]

Madoff has been around scamming the world for 40 years in good economies and bad, not just the recent economy. Ponzi schemes have never lasted this long, if not for the govt your tax dollars goes to that supported Madoff. One cannot believe anything the govt ever tells them. Madoff victims made the mistake of beieving in our govt.

[Cynmark24]

Greedy vultures. Why don't you spend just a moment to read about most of the people who were victimized, rather than allow your uneducated biase dictate your thoughts. Most were hard working people who thought he was trustworthy, especailly since our wonderful govt had stated numerous times that he was above board. A modicum of common sense should have told you that.

[Hoopskidoodle]

I couldn't care less about you or those greedy Jews whose and avarice led them to ruin. What kind of fool would believe that any investment returning 10 or more percent come hell or high water could have been on the up and up. You were probably one of them, you stupid cocksucker.

[Cynmark24]

I must thank you. You could not have made a better case than by your own words as to what kind of a person you are.

[Hoopskidoodle]

Which part of "I couldn't care less about you" did you fail to understand? You're completely inconsequential to me, cocksucker. Now, run along and fuck yourself.

[Cynmark24]

I rest my case.

[Hoopskidoodle]

Eat a dick, you supercilious old bitch. You're probably a child molester or some such degenerate, as is typical of your ilk.

[Cynmark24]

If I am so "inconsequential" to you as you say I am, then why do you keep responding to my posts? . Not only is your inferiority complex showing but you are totally obsessed with me!

[daderone]

thats your opinion and likely not the one you'd have if you had been directly effected by this or any fraud.

I still think he should be forced to pay everything he can to those he injured and stole from. I mean it when I say I'd make him get a prison job as well.

He has some money. Why should it go any place besides to the victims?

[Hoopskidoodle]

1. I'm not Jewish

2. My parents lived through the Great Depression (which has made me paranoid about just this sort of thing)

So, it's unlikely that I will ever be in that position.

FYI: I couldn't have been effected by fraud. I was effected by my parents having screwed.

Affected and effected are disparate words.

[daderone]

1. has absolutely nothing to do with anything.

2. You purposefully miss the point and then try to side step answering by pretending to be a spelling queen.

So if you were suffering or had been taken advantage of you wouldn't deserve any empathy or retribution? Give me a break.

[Hoopskidoodle]

1. You're being purposely obtuse. Most of Madoff's investors were Jews. So, while I might have taken a hit on a fund or 401K that was, unknown to me, involved with him, I wouldn't have lost the bulk of my savings. Either you already knew that, of you're just stupid as fuck.

2. Again, you're being obtuse. Personal knowledge of the Great depression has led me not to dump all of my money into the crap shoot that is the stock market. Gold will always be gold.

[daderone]

stop being childish, its like me saying that if he were Austrian there would no way I'd ever be affected because I'm not Austrian.

You want to make attacks against the victims, go ahead, show us how cool and cruel u can be.

The point is that if I sold you tires and then put a sharp piece of metal on your driveway a week later day you'd cry like a baby for fraud if you found out after buying another tire. You'd def. want your money back.

[Hoopskidoodle]

You suck at making analogies. That's not the same thing at all, unless, unbeknown to me, Austrian Americans routinely and ubiquitously collude to rip off every non-Austrian who has the misfortune of crossing their paths.

That's how Berny was able to rip off all of those Jews. They thought that he was their little secret; a mensch exclusively available to them, who gave them and their Jew-Only charities a distinct advantage over all of the goyische dreck.

Oh, the delicious schadefreude, ROFL

[daderone]

yes i do suck at analogies, i always have, but do wonder whether you have always had such a difficult time not avoiding the points people make.

You keep trying to make this such a specific case and rant and rave about Jews. Its not only absurd its not the point. At least not the one I was making.

The point I was making is that he should pay people back and that you seem to think its cool to be crude, rude and to have a lack of empathy for others. I think its pretty superficial and weak.

[Hoopskidoodle]

I have a lack of both empathy and sympathy for people who thought they were slicker than owl shit and got summarily taken to the cleaners.

In the market, you spin the wheel and you take your chances. Everyone knows that. So, if you choose to put all of your eggs in one basket, then you ultimately must blame yourself.

Madoff isn't going to pay back any significant amount of money. You can forget about that. The latest figure exceeds $60 billion. It's gone. Get over it or jump from a window.

[Hoopskidoodle]

...if i was stupid enough to have put all of my eggs into one highly dubious basket, I wouldn't deserve sympathy. And, retribution isn't going to get their money back. Madoff was merely the instrument of fate. Their stupidity is what made their money go up in smoke. If it hadn't been old Berny, it would have been a Nigerian Prince... ROFL

[agentbong138]

Do you understand what a ponzi pyramid is? This guy has money to live a decent life, but he does not have all the money these people ever gave him, most of it was givin back to older investors, that's how a ponzi works. I wouldn't be surprised if he had less than 1Bil to his name.

[daderone]

i know. I understand. Guess what. 1 billion goes a long ways. Its sure a good first step to what was it $60 billion. If his sons were involved then maybe there is another billion. Maybe some middle men turn up with some other money in some bank accounts somewhere.

If I was representing one of these people maybe I wouldn't get them everything, but they'd sure get some kind of retribution for their injury from the guilty.

[Hoopskidoodle]

They are saying that it's over 60 billion dollars now.

[Tigerpoi51]

All those years of Work for nothing.

[FahhhhhQ]

Same for me except I was ripped off by the everyday thieves that run the world.

[magie19475]

My mom gave me a really good piece of advice when I was growing up: "Never Put All Your Eggs All In One Basket".

[nicholashenton]

i bet these people are really struggling financially.