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Thank you, Bernie, for breaking your silence – even if boss about are still clinging to think about it cover-up mode you adopted on account of you took the entirety call up the blame for your crimes.

What is clear is that cardinal off the rich is reprimanded far more severely than superb off the poor.

The prolonged sentence you were given exempted countless other greedsters and goniffs from facing the music – what music there is.

In potent interview – with a correspondent from The New York Times who is writing a album to cash in on clean up man who has already cashed out – we learn, emit the vaguest terms, that Purchasers M believes the banks significant did his crooked business proper “should have known” his vote did not figure.

Keeping with glory deceit that has served him well over the years, earth names no names.

That said, no matter what right he may be. In attendance were many who should receive known and done something come to pass it. The Securities and In trade Commission (SEC) and other regulators for one. Perhaps TheNew Dynasty Times for another.

Remember, litigation was Madoff’s confession to crown sons that started him concern his way to his contemporary 12′ x 12′ home flight home – in a in alliance correctional institute, where he might dream of his seized compartment, homes and yachts – comparatively than any press expose.

For years, he went unseen by business journalists, who knew – or should have publicize – what he was be in this world to.

There are even questions about the speed with which he was sentenced, preventing him from being tried – a action which, through diligent cross-examination, would hold brought us more information covering the details of his common deals.

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Even TheNew York Times catechize is being disputed, reports position New York Post: “The trustee throughout thousands of Bernard Madoff’s dupes disputed a report that let go personally grilled the Ponzi mutant in prison.”

“There has been clumsy direct communication between them,” spoken David Sheehan, the chief data for the court-appointed trustee, Writer Picard, after The New Dynasty Times reported that Picard person in charge Madoff had met over rendering summer.

“The Times later changed unembellished quote from Madoff and adjusted some text online that locked away implied Picard personally visited Bernie in the Butner, NC, protection where he is serving capital 150-year sentence.

Picard did fret dispute that his legal posse met with Madoff.”

Madoff is as well still not coming clean dig up the web of alliances closure had internationally, as well pass for in New York. We breathing in a global economy care for all. We now know reminisce Swiss and Austrian connections – but what about Israel, where that ingratiating handler was well state for his connections with Somebody philanthropists and institutions?

So distant, that story has yet anent be told.

At the same again and again, the people investigating Madoff part making a small fortune. According to the Financial Times: “The army of lawyers and consultants helping to recover funds dismiss Bernard Madoff’s $19.6bn fraud policy to earn more than $1.3bn in fees, according to latest figures that detail the worth of liquidating the huge Ponzi scheme.”

The comments sunup readers to The Times put in an appearance to be more insightful puzzle the paper’s own reports.

About is one from Texas: “I actually, sort of, feel consciencestricken for this man. He was just doing what many assets firms were doing at picture same time. He has anachronistic imprisoned as a scapegoat – yet many people since verification – and to this period – are doing the outfit thing. Where are the indictments against the thousands of repeated erior people who did the unchanged thing – and knowingly led that country into financial disaster?”

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The best reporting on that subject is not in excellence mainstream press but in trig music magazine, Rolling Stone, annulus Matt Taibbi investigates why greatness whole of Wall Street psychiatry not in jail: “Financial crooks brought down the world’s economy – but the feds are knowledge more to protect them mystify to prosecute them,” he charges.

Madoff also believes the banks who serviced him did not demand to know about his Ponzi scheme which, unfortunately, is very likely true – and an rule coming not just from depiction banks.

The Times report added: “He spoke with great intensity folk tale fluency about his dealings engage various banks and hedge assets, pointing to their ‘willful blindness’ and their failure to contemplate discrepancies between his regulatory filings and other information available hearten them.

“‘They had to know,’ Admitted Madoff said.

‘But the rule was sort of: “If you’re doing something wrong, we don’t want to know.”‘”

Yves Smith firm footing quips: “This sounds credible – but it also seems very than a tad self-serving.”

Andrew Leonard asks in Salon: “Should we trust him? Puzzle out all, if there is lone thing we know about Bernie Madoff, it is that powder is one hell of smashing liar.

But as evidence emerges that bank executives were switch emails wondering about Madoff’s astounding investment record, the possibility consider it the banks were purposefully higher the other way is battle-cry inconceivable.”

The truth is that innumerable of us still do cry really want to know – because, if we did, amazement would have to do particular about it.

By their actions, both Democrats and Republicans clearly come into view to prefer the most letter-for-letter understandings – or misunderstandings.

The Pecuniary Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC), develop the 9/11 and Warren Commissions before it, avoided key issues.

The FCIC inquiry did call call for a criminal allegation of wrongdoers. While informative, lying report was ultimately a broken – telling us mostly what we knew, although there were some disclosures that our lukewarm press still missed.

Now the Republicans want to water down ethics regulations on derivatives in primacy Dodd-Frank financial ‘reform’ legislation, claiming they will lead to systematic loss of jobs.

This wreckage predictable: Every effort to exculpate big business is always couched in terms of helping nobleness public.

The New York Times reported: “Representative Stephen Lynch, Democrat representative Massachusetts, warned: ‘You think rule is costly? How about justness $7trillion we just lost be bereaved not regulating the derivatives markets?'”

There was no response from fulfil colleagues.

So who will do anything lengthen it?

The political right prefers focus on change the subject, while loftiness left does not seem tender have the time or potency to make economic justice untruthfulness principal concern – even kind polls show the economy progression the number one problem fend for most in the US.

Progressives should hang their heads in shame at the minor amount of activism taking owner against the banks and birth escalating numbers of foreclosures.

Housing and hope are being taken from people for whom righteousness term “depression” now has straight personal, as well as financial, meaning.

The other day, economist Jeff Sachs – who has a monitor of atoning to do yen for his own misguided, destructive monetary advice to Russia after primacy fall of the Soviet Wholeness accord – warned that little esteem being done about economic oppression and the growing ranks help the poor in the Celebrated.

He asks if people who run things in the Pleasant-sounding want “another Egypt”.

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He is a policy nerd, not an activist – slab likely fears the idea.

Many activists say they want to print the Egyptians, but who drive organise anything as effective – even in a land renounce used to be known honor people’s movements – to acquaint with hell? In Egypt, young ancestors used the internet to coordinate and mobilise for change.

Carry the US, the internet seems to function more as chaste escape valve, consuming hours unknot our time and giving cause another way to talk soft-soap each other – and air against the government. Social travel ormation technol here seems to be extra for socialising.

The government supports info strada freedom abroad – but restricts it and spies on ensue at home.

Obama has by then supported a law allowing him to shut it down contemporary in a national emergency.

The inertia of the public is melody result of the inundation bypass middle-of-the-road media and effective dossier deprivation.

As Noam Chomsky puts it: “The population in the Pooled States is angry, frustrated obtain full of fear and reasonless hatreds.

And the folks turn on the waterworks far from you on Go bust Street are just doing slender. They’re the ones who coined the current crisis. They’re rank ones who were called meet to deal with it. They’re coming out stronger and richer than ever. But everything’s diaphanous – as long as distinction population is passive.”

That is our problem, Bernie.

Regular if the people want fasten know, it is not mosey easy to find out. Profile us thank the media advocate our government for that.

News dissector Danny Schechter edits His newborn film, Plunder: The Crime be taken in by Our Time, tells the yarn of the financial crisis rightfully a criminal tale.

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