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So his employer invested money that would normally have gone towards Bonilla's paycheck into a Ponzi scheme... but instead of losing everything as a result (which is what would have happened to 99.99% of employees), Bonilla will end up with five times the original salary.

Always enlightening to get a glimpse into how things work for those at the top.




The owner owed Bonilla money according to a contract. Separately, the owner lost money with Madoff, but the money lost was the owner’s not Bonilla’s.


The Mets were investing with Madoff in addition to the owner: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/14/sports/baseball/bernie-ma...


The key point is that Bonilla wasn’t. If I lost money with Madoff, I couldn’t tell my mortgage company that it was too bad for them that I was going to pay my mortgage with the money that was lost.


The other Mets players didn't lose everything as a result of the Madoff Ponzi scheme, it was only the owner. This scheme let the owner legally move the money over to the ponzi scheme, that's it.




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