Reports are that Bernie Madoff is pleading guilty WITHOUT a deal with the prosecution?
Is there a separate deal with a third party?
He gets to live, albeit in prison, if he doesn't testify about who he worked with and where the money came from and went?
Follow the money (if you can).
According to the US government the total of the Claimed Account balances is now $64.8 Billion with $170 Billion in forfeitures.
Bernie beats the estimate of $50 Billion stolen. Rally time.
Oh and according to Bloomberg, the judge has ruled that the only victims who will be allowed to speak on Friday in court will be those who do NOT think Bernie should be sentenced to any jail time.
Do the thousands of other less forgiving victims get to have their say in a free speech zone in the south Bronx?
“Thus, it should be understood that when pro-US figures use the term, 'rules-based international order,' they are not referring to anything analogous to the rule of law. Quite the opposite, they are using Orwellian language to describe a system in which essentially no rules can be established and/or observed, given that the dominant state has the prerogative to violate and/or rewrite “rules” at its whim.” Aaron Good, American Exception