I guess I spend a lot of time in my blog giving the story as to how I come up with topics for the day soooo…. Today as I was reading the headlines of the news on my Yahoo page. I clicked on an article about the man behind the Bernie Madoff stock scandal. From what I garnered the individual was very helpful to the FBI when the bubble burst. He was very helpful in securing a long sentence for his boss. When he went into court the other day he expressed his remorse in his connection with the swindle and plead guilty. All is going well for everyone at this point. All according to plan. Everything nice and tidy. ” I got the big fish and I will soon be free. ” At least that is what I think he would think?
From the article the import was that the defendant was a little put off when the judge ordered him remanded into custody of the jail instead of being released with bail or his own recognisance. The judge thought that in spite of his testimony and guilty plea that the defendant needed to be incarcerated until sentencing. It may be until 2010 and he is looking at 125 years total. What amount he gets will most likely be substantially less than that number though.
I guess that I am surprised that the judge kept him incarcerated. Why is this judge no longer in the “good ol’ boys club ?” It would seem that this was a cookie cutter case for every one but the judge. Because this defendant had money(any part of a billion is big in my book …much less 65 billion) the defendant had a high profile attorney or attorney’s. The attorney’s are well connected in the whole scheme of things. Most likely his lawyers regularly have martini’s with the judicial hierarchy. It appeared to be all cut and dried. Then the hammer fell. No freedom. Immediate incarceration. Looking at a 125 years for his guilty plea. The judge got it right. It is time to pay. From the top down.
I spend a great deal of time considering the way I treat my son. I am the judge. I am the defense attorney, and the district attorney when it comes to dealing with his actions. I have a few axioms “We always share” , “If it ain’t yours don’t touch it”, “Look but don’t touch”, “IF your not early you are late”, “Say what you do and do what you say”, “if you feel the need to lie about something than you should not have been doing it”. IF Mama is not happy no one is happy” , I am sure that there are more. I have not made them up just yet.
When dealing with my son I need to see that his actions speak the same as his words. I mention this because the judge in the court case must have seen something in the man’s attitude that deserved the deviation from the “good ol’boy’s club”. IT is obvious that the defendant in the case mentioned failed according to US law and he failed miserably in Kirk’s court as well. When I meat out justice in Kirk’s court it is contingent upon the defendant to show appropriate remorse and contrition. In other words getting mad at me for handing out a fair sentence not only does not curry favor with the judge it actually makes the sentence even worse. The designed effect of this lesson is to show that if one is truly sorry for what one has done one must be willing to accept the punishment no matter what is handed out. In Kirk’s court it has been eight years and counting and Kellen is still not able to grasp what his judge(Father) is trying to instill in him. I have faith that Kellen will eventually come to the fore but I do not think that the defendant in the Madoff scandal did. Hopefully, his incarceration will open his eyes to the laws of the US which he must adhere. He has almost a year to think about it before he will be sentenced. It is to bad that this defendant did not have Kirk’s axiom’s engrained into his phychie like Kellen will/does. If he had all of this would have stopped a long time ago!!
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