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Just because they don't directly wield a knife, hammer, or gun and personally extract blood does NOT mean that insufficient damage is done.

A number of the victims of Madoff's fraud committed suicide. Sure, Madoff didn't pull the trigger.

But he sure as hell enticed them to put their life savings with him, and when they were retired, had no real prospects of any new income, and were suddenly destitute with no hope of recovery, Madoff sure put them in that utterly hopeless situation, with the same end result as if he had pulled the trigger.

As they say: "If you can't do the time, don't do the crime.".

Many people are relieved and rightly so, that Madoff spent the remainder of is days and died in prison.

Same for SBF.




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