[lbo-talk] The Madoff double bluff

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Sun Dec 21 08:18:46 PST 2008


double bluff wrote:
>
> Comments on this?
>
> Or double scam. Brilliant. Just found on work_democracy at yahoogroups.com
> Source not disclosed. Extract:
>
> “all those wealthy members of the
> Jewish community get nothing, but if the CEO admits to fraud they get
> their money back as compensation from the US tax payer,

This is offensive. It was legitimate in one WSJ article to note that one group of the victims were Jewish because they belonged to a Jewish Country Club in Florida; it was part of the story. But there is no reason in the text quoted here to remark on this fact.

Carrol



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