Makes the heart sad

From here (La Tribune, in french):

Rene-Thierry Magon de la Villehuchet, the co-founder of hedge fund Access International Advisors, was discovered to be dead by his own hand early Tuesday in his office in Manhattan after losing as much as $1.4 billion in the alleged fraud of Bernard L. Madoff.

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4 comments on “Makes the heart sad

  1. Chris Molter says:

    Too bad they can’t add negligent homicide onto the charges against Madoff.

  2. Ad Orientem says:

    May God have mercy on his soul.

  3. Chris says:

    how about at least involuntary manslaughter, #1?

  4. Chris Molter says:

    #3, something. anything to try to reflect the gravity of the wrongdoing. It’s not like Madoff didn’t KNOW what he was doing was going to ruin a lot of lives.