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Bernie Madoff's many victims vent in letters to sentencing judge

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this New York Times article, headlined "Fraud Victims Want Maximum for Madoff," some victim of Bernie Madoff's ponzi scheme have had a chance to tell his sentencing judge what they think ought to happen to their least-favorite white-collar criminal.  Here are a few details: They are widows, retired schoolteachers, electrical contractors and Korean War veterans. Most had a strong message for the judge in charge of sentencing Bernard L. Madoff: impose the maximum sentence allowable by law. In more than 100 letters and e-mail messages to Judge Denny Chin, victims of Mr. Madoff?s $65 billion Ponzi scheme described how their lives had been forever changed by the actions of a man they had trusted. The letters, sent to the Federal District Court in Manhattan and released to the public on Monday, come ahead of Mr...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 16, 2009 (boomark / email).