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Why Bernie Madoff won't get a record white-collar sentence

By Douglas A. Berman

In this posta few weeks ago, I put forward a "bleg from a Forbes reporter seeking to "compile a list of longest federal sentences for white-collar criminals, specifically financial criminals."  The product of the reporter's efforts now appears in this effective piece, headlined "It Could Have Been Worse For Madoff : Bernie Madoff may have committed the biggest white-collar crime, but he won't get the longest white-collar sentence."  Here is how the piece starts: Bernard Madoff may have confessed to the largest investment fraud in history, but that doesn't mean he'll get the longest white-collar sentence when he faces a federal judge on June 29. Madoff, 71, confessed to running a $65 billion ponzi scheme that spanned decades and affected thousands of investors...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 25, 2009 (boomark / email).