Madoff son found dead of apparent suicide

I guess you may have seen that the son of  Bernie Madoff (serving a 150 yr sentence), Mark Madoff killed himself yesterday.  That is sad. The sons pay for the sins of the fathers, don’t they?

 I feel the most for the 2 yr old boy Mark Madoff (named recently in several lawsuits as direct investors try to recoup their losses) left behind. That’s truly a shame. For some reason I can’t help but think Bernie, in prison, will only be able to show his humanity by promptly dying of grief himself  -if only to satisfy some angry people.  The whole thing is a shame.  But the pure viciousness of some readers just take my breath away:

• ·         batman13  -What would have made this a REALLY happy story would have been if when Bernie got the news, he had a heart attack and died. Oh well, I guess you can't have everything.
• ·         bbqbearII  - one can only hope it was a slow painful wretching death.. one he hadn't expected..
• ·         AzWildcat  - Too bad the rest of the Republican Party won't follow his lead

[nonsense, hateful vicious nonsense, Havoth says – even in wishing Repugnicans dead – I don’t like the hard core conservatives who work tirelessly for the rich bastards, bankers, and PACs who have screwed up our country, either, but I don’t wish them dead…I wish the populace was SMARTER in their chosen representatives – Stop voting for the guy you’d like to get drunk with or the Ice Queen you’d like to fuck – vote for someone who can explain shit and do something about it in the People’s favor – Like…uh…say…Bill Clinton!!!!]

However, one of the more positive and just commenters on a CNN article said: “The only mistake Bernie made was to steal from rich people. They [rich people/Republican hard core conservatives and the like] don't like that. ‘You steal from the poor like the rest of us!’ If you can't pay one mortgage you’re a deadbeat, If you can't pay a million mortgages, then your Bear Sterns and we bail you out.”

Now that’s a really sad but true thing to say. A very strange example of how our money system works in this country.