Madoff beat up in prison ... does anyone feel bad?

The thing about social media and responding like this is that it shines a light on the lack of education and lack of consideration of real issues. We are lucky to live in a society where people with no knowledge or research or education can voice opinions. Madoff is a sociopath. There are many in business like him. Does he deserve what happens in jail? Who cares. You should ask yourself what you want from sentencing. Do you want you change society or punish?

Funny this guy stole a lot of money, what about the big banks that steal our money everyday. If anybody deserves a beating it's the men that creatated todays banking system. When has human life and respect, come to a second spot to money. Violence has no postive outcome. This guy has to spend his last days locked up, no family this should be fair punishment itself.

"The dispute centred on money the assailant thought he was owed by Mr. Madoff"

Oh really! And I suppose that it never occurred to the assailant that this old rich guy was ripe for extortion ... something like "give me a million dollars or I'll beat the crap out of you, time after time"

Do I feel bad? I feel bad that Bernie Madoff was physically beaten, if that is true. I also feel bad for the countless number of lives that have been upset by his actions, but two wrongs do not make a right. Insinuating that Madoff is not a human being is purely immature and completely ignorant. He made mistakes, just as we all do, the only difference is that his mistake cost $65 billion, and was then blown up so that everyone who reads a news paper or turns on their television could be made aware of it.
Nobody deserves to be physically assaulted, in any way. And the comment about "better not drop the soap" makes me physically ill... what type of person wishes that on another?

OH , IT REALLY GOT BEATEN UP? WHAT A RELIEVE! WE IN CANADA HAVE A SIMILAR SCUMBAG NAMED VINCENT LACROIX. HE ALSO RUINED THE LIVES OF MANY PEOPLE WHEN THE MONEY DISAPPEARED, HE STILL IN COURT AWAITING THE SENTENCE, IT WOULD BE GOOD ONCE IN JAIL TO GET THE SAME TREATEMENT OR WORSE . NO PITY FOR THESE BASTARDS

Doesn't deserve to be beat up. Yes, he's evil, a fraudster and defrauded people of money. However, someone who thinks he can make 15%+ year after year with no fluctuation on his money is greedy as well, not to mention a buffoon. Why did folks lose common sense and invest in something like this? Madoff's greedy, but so were his investors. Two wrongs don't make a right, and neither do three.

There is a little thing in life called 'Karma' - maybe he should of thought about how he was hurting other people?

time for me to go over and beat the sh.t out of this con. scumbag.

what the hell has the liberals to do with that man? get your supplier to start you on another slant, the cons must not be paying you enough for you to have to use your brain, if you have one.

Right on cd, lol.

That would work. hahaha.

Look... anybody here who said he does not deserve to be beaten were obviously not effected by this mans greed... he ruined lives... multiple ones... if you worked your *ss off your entire life to get screwed over like all of his investors in the end... you would wish ill fate on the man responsible as well... so do not say he didn't desrve it... he deserved that or more... i seriously hope it happend and happens again repeatedly on several occasions and by several inmates regardless of his age... wish i knew the man who beat him down so i could go shake his hand...

WHAT HE DID, HE DID TO HIMSELF. CAN ANYBODY SAY ANYTHING DIFFERENT...? BOTTOMLINE, KARMA SAYS: WHEN YOU SCR.. THE UNIVERSE, THE UNIVERSE SCR... YOU BACK. THERE'S NO IF'S, AND'S OR BUT'S. HE SCR... HIMSELF ROYALLY. DID HE ACTUALLY THINK HE WAS GOING TO FOOL THE UNIVERSE? THERE IS A $65 BILLION LESSON TO BE LEARNED HERE.

I think Ron, six comments in, just about got it right. Madoff was the pawn in a much bigger game which see's Israel's military industrial complex spend $36b annually among 8.3m people. Like Robert Maxwell before him, he sacrificed gentile money to the "greater common interest" of the Jewish State. Similarly, once dead, he too will be buried on Temple Mt. for his overwhelming self-sacrifice. Or like Ken Lay from Enron, he may be pronounced dead in prison & the NSA will give him a whole new face & identity. Anyway you cut it, Americans are forced to support the Jo-oz, either through taxation or fraudulent acquisition.

Well the way i see it is if you live in Texas and you rob a bank with a gun you get live or the death penalty.
I think that capital punishment should be everywhere.
The only difference with this POS is he didnt use a gun.
What happened to the days of hanging we would have half of the crime we do today.
Rapist,Child Molesters,Murderers,Robbers,Why should we waste another dime on keeping them alive they cannot be changed or rehabilitated.
But ofcourse that is just my point of view
As for the bastards age well shit he should have known better right.

Apparantly most of Madoff's victims were Jewish, so it wasn't all bad.

I wonder how his wife, knowing that her "scum bag" husband bilked so many families out of their retirement savings goes to sleep at nite??? How does his wife and Madoff himself live with this?? These people obviously have no conscience whatsoever and are EVIL!! You're absolutely right about Madoff's wife receiving 2M to live. Most people cannot even imagine having two milllion dollars to retire and she gets this despite all of his investors who got nothing? What is wrong with our justice system? The judge obviously felt that she was entitled to some retirement funds when so many people got nothing! This was truly a miscarriage of justice! I truly believe that what "goes around", "comes around" and that applies to both Mr. & Mrs. Bernie Madoff. As far as I am concerned, she is as guilty as he and she too will suffer the consequence of her husband's fraudulent behavior, if she hasn't already. No sympathy for the Madoff Queen...

Isn't the possibility of personal physical harm part of the deterent of going to prison in the first place? When you choose to commit a crime, you are aware that this is a possible direction your life may take. Its not like Madolf is innocent, or has been mistakenly or unjustly sent to prison. He is beyond all doubt, guilty of his crimes.

Morally, I agree with some posters that no one should suffer physcial attacks of this nature. Is it any different then the 'punishment' many of Madolf's investors currently live with everyday? Retired persons forced to return to work, after believing they had already worked their entire lives and saved diligently for their golden years. Offspring who were to inherit a nest egg for their own futures. Non profit organizations who can no longer help the needy. There are thousands of lives that have been ruined and suffered severe undo harm as a result of this mans actions.

It is in our nature to feel sympathy for the suffering and to protect the weak. Might Madolf fall into these categories at this time? Perhaps. It seems only just that Madolf continue to 'suffer' in prison as long as even one of his own victims continues to survive (live) on the outside.

I can only take comfort in the fact that there is no death penalty for Madolf's crimes. It seems like it would have been the easy way out. I hope Madolf lives well into his hundred's.

Yes, what Bernie did was wrong. No, it is not right to beat him for it regardless of his age. Prison is bad enough for a white-collar crime. The man was intelligent enough to get away with it for a decade. Why can't the government put his skills to good use making back the money he took from the investors? When the money is paid back and an appropriate fine to cover the costs of prosecution levied, then he should be released from prison. Prison should be reserved for the type of violent criminals that are accused of beating him in the first place. Our jails are overflowing. It is very costly to keep just one prisoner in jail. Why do taxpayers need to keep these white-collar people in prison? That's not justice, it's punishment. We all know that punishment never prevents crime. If it did then there would be no repeat offenders.

After all the lives this man has ruined , then this is just some small justice he rightly deserved. I hope the inmates in the prison make him pay monetarily, physically,& emotionally each & every day, much the same as his victims have endured. Lets make White Collar Crime pay with more than a token - short - incarceration they normally get away by using a high price lawyer. The scope of this mans theft deserves life imprisonment !!!!

anyone who steals from another person the way he did and the way other Ponzi artists do, should not be given any special priviledges in jail. Jail justice works and works very well, one of these times, one of these beatings will prove to be too much, all the Ponzi guys can learn from this and wonder, just wonder that when they go to jail, they too will be at the helm of prison justice just like old Bernie boy. Like water finding its own level, justice will find justice, Thank God for Jails and Jail Justice, that is what I say