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Given the manner in which Jews have been hated, persecuted, hunted down and slaughtered throughout the millenia, isn't it possible that Bernie Madoff is just another manifestation of the "will of God"?

After all, what Bernie did is not even a drop in the bucket when compared to the terrible years that were the Holocaust.

So: If God observed and then judged Hilter from on high throughout the Second World War....and did nothing to intervene...how much time can one imagine he is reserving today for Bernie Madoff?

george

- iambiguous

August 10, 2009 at 3:56am

Thank you for another enlightening piece from Ed Epstein. I had strongly suspected that all transactions conducted by Bernard Madoff were not confined to House 17, walled off from the entire outside world. Mr. Epstein pretty much confirms my suspicion with his sleuthing.

- liberal reformer

August 10, 2009 at 9:01am

Is the answer "common sense"?  

- selish70

August 10, 2009 at 9:33am

Another disgusting post by the Jew hater George Walton.

- J. Dyer

August 10, 2009 at 10:36am

What is the question, selish? Jackson: where the hell did this walton come from? He is graphomanic, insane, and an anti-Semite, to boot.

- liberal reformer

August 10, 2009 at 1:10pm

A lot of the profits from the Ponzie scheme went to other people:

-- Massachusetts regulators filed civil fraud claims against Fairfield Greenwich Group, the largest feeder fund to Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme, claiming the firm ignored red flags as it collected hundreds of millions of dollars in fees.

-- Fairfield had $6.9 billion of its $14 billion of assets invested with Madoff, according to the firm. Founding partners Jeffrey Tucker and Mr. Noel each earned more than $30 million in 2007 and more than $100 million each over the past decade, the complaint says.

online.wsj.com/.../SB123859307450378115.html

- ndmackenzie

August 10, 2009 at 1:57pm