{"id":13612,"date":"2009-06-29T20:53:38","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T20:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/madoff_sentenced_to_150_years_in_prison_for_ponzi_scheme\/"},"modified":"2009-06-29T20:53:38","modified_gmt":"2009-06-29T20:53:38","slug":"madoff_sentenced_to_150_years_in_prison_for_ponzi_scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13612","title":{"rendered":"Madoff Sentenced to 150 Years in Prison for Ponzi Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge sentenced Bernard L. Madoff to 150 years in prison on Monday for operating a huge Ponzi scheme that devastated thousands of people, calling his crimes \u201cextraordinarily evil.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>In pronouncing the sentence \u201d\u201d the maximum he could have handed down \u201d\u201d Judge Denny Chin turned aside Mr. Madoff\u2019s own assertions of remorse and rejected the suggestion from Mr. Madoff\u2019s lawyers that there was a sense of \u201cmob vengeance\u201d\u009d surrounding calls for a long prison term.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObjectively speaking, the fraud here was staggering,\u201d\u009d the judge said. \u201cIt spanned more than 20 years.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/30\/business\/30madoff.html?hp\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge sentenced Bernard L. Madoff to 150 years in prison on Monday for operating a huge Ponzi scheme that devastated thousands of people, calling his crimes \u201cextraordinarily evil.\u201d\u009d In pronouncing the sentence \u201d\u201d the maximum he could have<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13612\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,149,168,114,599,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-stock-market","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}