So u can help steal billions.......but can't take the heat when caught?

If he was complicit, of course that was a completely reprehensible thing. But a suicide is always a sad thing. RIP.

One can't help but wonder now about Bernie Madoff, whether he thinks it still was all was worth it.

Tragedy compounds like interest, in this case.

ThreadBare said:

One can't help but wonder now about Bernie Madoff, whether he thinks it still was all was worth it.

You've got to think he realized it wasn't the moment the jig was up, no? Perhaps even earlier, but he was in too deep?

I have more sympathy for the folks whose lives were ruined by these crooks.

uPtoWnNY said:

I have more sympathy for the folks whose lives were ruined by these crooks.

I think we all feel that way. No doubt.

uPtoWnNY said:

I have more sympathy for the folks whose lives were ruined by these crooks.

Was it ever confirmed that any of the family was in on it? The New York Times says:

The steps that led to that arrest began when he and his brother, Andrew, confronted their father over his plans to distribute hundreds of millions of dollars in bonuses to employees months ahead of schedule.

According to documents filed by the F.B.I. at the time of the arrest, that meeting led to a private conversation on Dec. 10, 2008, in which Bernard Madoff told his sons that their entire lives — all the wealth and success the family seemed to possess — were based on a lie. His apparently lucrative money-management business was nothing but an immense Ponzi scheme, and it was crumbling under the relentless pressures of the financial crisis of late 2008.

Mark and his brother immediately consulted a lawyer and were advised they had to report their father’s confession to law enforcement. They did so, and the following morning their father was arrested at his Manhattan penthouse.

So sad. I don't know what he was going through and why he did this, but I hope it had nothing to do with his asshole father.

Vendetta1 said:

So sad. I don't know what he was going through and why he did this, but I hope it had nothing to do with his asshole father.

His father was arrested December 11, 2008. Look at the calendar. huh.

If you look like a whistleblower, you don't look guilty...

He turned his dad in. He did the right thing, but I guess it was more than he could take.

I just lost a friend to suicide. That's very sad.