Madoff apologizes to neighbors for ultimate co-op faux pas

Accused mega-scam artist Bernie Madoff apologized to fellow tenants at his ritzy co-op for the ultimate faux pas: That ongoing media circus in the lobby. 

At this point, Madoff may wish the judge had kept him in jail. 

Comments

[shrimplate]

Jail is too good for him. He can live on the streets. Penniless.

[The Phantom]

The world has closed in on him pretty good.

He must know that he'll never walk the streets a free man again. And he's despised by everyone.

Yes, jail is too good for him, but Jesus H I wouldn't want to be in his shoes now.

[Cass]

I bet he'd do pretty well on the streets. Within a few days he'd have at least a thousand dollars of some Good Samaritan's money; a month or two more and he'll have drained their bank account, taken title of their car, and maybe the house.

(If Fox comes out with this reality show next season, everyone remember I though of it first.)

[The Phantom]

That was then.

But now, when he is so widely hated, by people who have lost a lot of money, I bet he'd get whacked very shortly.

In the unlikely event he is acquitted, he'd better have two bodyguards 24 hours a day.

[Cass]

He'd have to visit one of those underworld plastic surgeons, like the Joker, and take on a new name. These two steps out of the way and the sky is once again the limit.

[Greg Abbott]

What an odd man he must be. I wonder how much self-loathing and/or self-sabotage is behind his actions. Then again, I'm filtering this through the columnist's lens, who likely has her own biases.

Someone should write a very thorough biography of Madoff when all is said and done.

[Cass]

Two to one he'll be gracing us with a very moving autobiography before this decade's finished.

[The Phantom]

" Bernard Madoff's Ten Secrets to Financial Success "

[Uncle Kvetch]

Two to one he'll be gracing us with a very moving autobiography before this decade's finished.

Come now, cfrost, use your imagination.

My money's on Treasury Secretary in the Palin/Wurzelbacher administration in 2012.

[cfrost]

Come now, cfrost, use your imagination.

That’s Cass you’re confusing me with Kvetch, whose comment I wish I had thought of.

No, what struck me about the NY times piece was first, the tenant who was clutching her/his pearls all asweat about –oh my God- the children! And second, the appalling fact that Matt Lauer is actually paid more than minimum wage for hosting the worthless, fluffy piece of crap “journalism” that the Today Show is.

[Uncle Kvetch]

Oops. Apologies for the confusion.

And try to have a little more sympathy for those good, salt-of-the-earth folk on the Upper East Side, willya? I mean, every time I glance at the Times there's another story about a family being forced to cut the nanny's wages, or wondering if they're going to have to settle for just a month in the Hamptons this year rather than the whole summer. And now this! Utterly heartbreaking.