Bernard Madoff Sentenced for 150 years... What do you think about it???

I feel the sentence was about right, this way he will never be released and will probably die in prison. I hope he has to work in the laundry area or be on KP as we called it in the service. He stole people's money and life savings of many of them. They trusted him and believed in him, he betrayed their trust. He lived in luxury while stealing all of this money. The things that his wife owns came from the thefts he made, she should have to turn over all of the luxuries and they should be sold and the money given back to the ones he stole from.

I doubt he'll ever serve the majority of it as you said he's fairly up there in years & they are up for parole usually within a few yrs anyway. I do think he should of gotten one of those fun judges with creative sentances or stipulations. You know something like he should work at the prison cafeteria or whatever and all his earnings go into a trust that gets split up annually back to his "victems"

He got what he deserved since he did steal a lot of money from those people. I am not sure if it will send a strong message, but he got what was coming to him.

It sounds like a lifelong sentence to me.. This goes to show that being greedy for money doesn't help. I hope that I will never succumb to greed and doing offenses like that ever.. I don't know what to make of that sentence. I'll read on what others have to say.

OK, I have to ask. if you don't think that 150 years in jail is harsh enough, then, dare I ask, what would you propose. I think what Madoff did is horrible, but I would not agree with you that it was "evil". What he did was wrong, no doubt, but evil is much more than that. Usually evil involves the taking of life, and although loosing money is awful, it isn't loss of life. Remember that many of the people who lost money also were greedy themselves. Most of the money lost was that of other rich people, who invested with Madoff after he promised high rates of return many years in a row. Anyone who promises such a high rate (unreasonably high one might say) of return should be looked at with skepticism. Getting 150 years is a strong message.

I think that the sentence is a little bit exhaggerated, he made people lose money, and he stole part of that money, but there are people that for killing a person or for raping a woman get sentenced to less years. Crimes against the property should be less punished than crimes against persons. At least it is so in my country italy (well actually here the thing is exhaggerated in the other sense, people get away with just few years for this kind of things). This sentence anyway has a strong political motivation, punishing someone and putting the blame of the economic situation on financial speculators, and putting away the blame from the economic system as a whole.

I think it just goes to show how in our capitalist countries financial crimes are a much bigger deal than murder, rape or any other crimes commited against another person or people. Money is more important than people, and that's quite sad.

That's not right,he's already old,I mean come on,at least make him do 7 years,now that's reasonalble