Al Sharpton Rallies outside of Madoff Home
 

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Saying Bernard Madoff enjoys a "gilded penthouse incarceration," civil rights activist Al Sharpton led a rally outside the accused swindler's Manhattan home on Saturday urging equal justice for the rich and poor.

Sharpton and about 30 other demonstrators protested that Madoff was being allowed to remain free pending trial while poor people with no access to top legal representation languished in prison for relatively minor infractions.

"There must be one standard for all, and not one based on income," Sharpton said at the protest on Manhattan's affluent Upper East Side.

He added that Madoff was experiencing "a kind of gilded penthouse incarceration."

Madoff, 70, was arrested on December 11 in connection with what authorities have described as the biggest Ponzi scheme in history. In a Ponzi scheme, early investors are paid with money from new investors.

According to prosecutors, Madoff has confessed that his money management business was "one big lie" and had racked up losses of as much as $50 billion.


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Ok...Al....I understand what you are trying to accomplish but when you also found guilty of owing the gov't back taxes you can't rally in front of someone's else's crib and yell shenanigans. I hope nobody cut their feet on the shards of glass you left yesterday.

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yes to what DS said.

I was about to come in and say the same thing.

While Al Sharpton may not be the best advocate to raise this issue, the issue needs to be raised!

Madoff should be in prison, not under house arrest.

Madoff should be strapped to a chair and fried.

Sharpton must've lost money.

Lord have mercy on him. Perhaps out of this mess, investors will reconsider their greed and stop making idiotic decisions.

Not likely.

Wait - you're blaming the investors? LOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

Blaming them? Not at all. People have to protect themselves from crooks. They should know better than to be fooled into an unreasonably high ROI.

There's a difference between not doing due diligence and getting defrauded, you know? He actually paid out that ROI until the scheme imploded . . .

Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison.

Whew.

No one is above the law....LOL.

The judge threw the book at him...and connected.

Damn.

Madoff should burn in hell for all of the people he screwed and his family lived so well.
Sharpton needs to keep his nose out of peoples business when it is not needed along with Jackson. a lot of show and press coverage is what they are looking for. screw them. what have they actually done for people other than get their names in the press?