Bernie Madoff, mastermind of US’s biggest investment fraud, dies at 82. ripped off tens of thousands of people of as much as $65 billion. was serving a 150-year prison sentence for his scheme, which investigators said defrauded as many as 37,000 people in 136 countries over four decades. Victims included the famous — director Steven Spielberg, actor Kevin Bacon, former New York Mets owner Fred Wilpon and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Weisel — and ordinary investors. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/14/ber...-nations-biggest-investment-fraud-was-82.html
It does make you wonder about rotting in hell. I mean, at what point do you become fully rotten. And then what? Your not rotting anymore, so it's all good if the rate of rotting is fast. And if you rot slowly over a long period of time, for eternity, there must be a rate at which you don't even notice the rotting so you are good there too. But I don't want to find out because who knows what kind of neighbors you will get.
Would you trade living like a billionaire for 40 years and then go to jail for the last 10 years of your life?
Good question. If had bank that I could count on after 10 years maybe but would be hard knowing I would never return to that life. I also could not enjoy it knowing how many people I ****ed over, I would not be able to sleep at night or really enjoy myself.
Oh, like Lamar Odom. The billionaire I know works about 12 hours a day, every day. He lives extremely frugally, in a nice large home but nothing that someone who makes high six figures couldn't afford. Boring Lexus sedan. Same with other wealthy people I know. The type of people who jet-set around the world are trust-fund babies who never have to work.
Initially, I thought that as well but after watching episodes of American Greed, it's entirely within the range of probability. His reputation was impeccible and folks trusted and believed in him. And don't forget, he literally had people begging him to take them on as clients - to take their money. In fact, that's what happened to Kira and Kevin Bacon. There have been numerous Ponzi schemes run by a sole person who generated the fake financial statements, etc. to keep the scheme going and that's what Bernie was doing. His clients were getting fake statements that indicated their money was safe and generating excellent returns and because they trusted him, they never had a reason to question him. If not for the 2008 financial meltdown which shut off his ability to get new clients, he would still be in business today.
I would think the intense heat in hell would cause a drastic reduction in humidity which would in turn severely inhibit rot.
