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re: Scandals you found overblown?
Posted on 11/18/23 at 8:52 pm to Porpus
Posted on 11/18/23 at 8:52 pm to Porpus
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Bernie Madoff's crime was failing to admit that he wasn't making his clients as much money as he'd said.
His crime was carrying out one of the largest Ponzi schemes in history. He stole money from investors.
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Posted on 11/18/23 at 8:52 pm to Pax Regis
quote:Look we kinda owed old Nixon one after the Democrats Kennedy's money and Johnson's cronies stole the sixty election from Nixon
Still hard to fathom the country went into meltdown over a botched breaking and entering in which nothing was stolen.
Posted on 11/18/23 at 8:53 pm to Porpus
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Bernie Madoff's crime was failing to admit that he wasn't making his clients as much money as he'd said. He didn't just take all their deposits and steal them.
Lol ahhh he took peoples money never invested it to pay out people he lied to about return. He got new money bc of lie. He stole big time
I don't care that meat chicken went to games
This post was edited on 11/18/23 at 9:00 pm
Posted on 11/18/23 at 8:55 pm to Ziippy
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People who did not get into those schools.
People don’t get into their school of choice every single day. Boo hoo.
Posted on 11/18/23 at 8:55 pm to Porpus
In the opposite direction, it’s disgusting but not surprising that the Russia collusion impeachment fabrication got so little media coverage and was never even labeled for exactly what it was — a coup attempt
Posted on 11/18/23 at 8:56 pm to Porpus
Many people were conceived the Jews lost the great war for Germany, I didn’t really see it
Posted on 11/18/23 at 8:57 pm to Porpus
quote:Martha Stewart
Scandals you found overblown?
Posted on 11/18/23 at 8:58 pm to biglego
OK, maybe I was off-base with the Madoff thing. I just read the Wikipedia article specifically about the recovery of assets for victims, and it said that the DoJ had recovered something like $16 billion against "admitted claims" of around $20 billion. The source is a paid site, so I don't know exactly what "admitted" means. The article also said that Madoff made basically no actual investments on behalf of clients for over 10 years, and that does go against what I said.
Posted on 11/18/23 at 9:00 pm to Porpus
I didn’t care that Slick Willy lied about getting a bj from a chubby intern
Definitely didn’t care about whatever it was that got Reggie Bush’s Heisman revoked
Never cared about the various NCAA violations over the years at various schools. They all seemed so petty and pointless.
Definitely didn’t care about whatever it was that got Reggie Bush’s Heisman revoked
Never cared about the various NCAA violations over the years at various schools. They all seemed so petty and pointless.
Posted on 11/18/23 at 9:02 pm to Porpus
quote:
DoJ had recovered something like $16 billion against "admitted claims" of around $20 billion
By clawing back money from previous investors
Also number sound wrong I don't know
Posted on 11/18/23 at 9:02 pm to James11111
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Bounty Gate, every sign-stealing scandal ever, deflate-gate
Just about everything involving sports rings a little hollow to me. Even the Lance Armstrong thing was kind of an eye-roller. If you were gullible enough to buy a bracelet, that sucks for you, but ultimately we're talking about bicycle racing and silicon rubber here.
Posted on 11/18/23 at 9:03 pm to Porpus
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Even the Lance Armstrong
Didn't they all cheat too
Posted on 11/18/23 at 9:04 pm to THRILLHO
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Never forget that congress interrogated baseball players over steroid usage.
And only they gave a Sh!t.
Posted on 11/18/23 at 9:05 pm to Pax Regis
quote:perfect storm:
Watergate.
Still hard to fathom the country went into meltdown over a botched breaking and entering in which nothing was stolen
Dem congress
Post '60s hangover
A GOP president who happened to be the most pathologically hated republican pre Trump
Posted on 11/18/23 at 9:05 pm to thelawnwranglers
quote:
Also number sound wrong I don't know
That's where the "admitted claims" thing comes into play. Sucks that the specifics are behind a paywall.
Going back to what I originally posted, though, most of what people would have been seeing in their statements would have been accumulated returns (10+ percent per year, for a long time). Unless the numbers behind that paywall have an extra zero compared to "admitted claims," we are in fact talking about lying about returns, not principal.
This post was edited on 11/18/23 at 9:06 pm
Posted on 11/18/23 at 9:06 pm to biglego
quote:Were Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals ever returned?
Definitely didn’t care about whatever it was that got Reggie Bush’s Heisman revoked
Posted on 11/18/23 at 9:07 pm to Porpus
Two out of three ain't bad.
Posted on 11/18/23 at 9:08 pm to chryso
quote:
Two out of three ain't bad.
Better than I ever did with women, even before the splenectomy and that misunderstanding at TJ Maxx.
Posted on 11/18/23 at 9:09 pm to 3deadtrolls
quote:
ISWYDT
Posted on 11/18/23 at 9:11 pm to Porpus
Bountygate. And I say this as a Vikings fan.
There were still refs at the games. Illegal hits were still illegal hits.
Didn’t seem like a big deal to me then. Still doesn’t.
There were still refs at the games. Illegal hits were still illegal hits.
Didn’t seem like a big deal to me then. Still doesn’t.
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