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?
"Some people see God as they see a cow, and love Him as they love a cow — for the milk and cheese, and the profit it brings. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of worldly possessions or inward comfort. They do not truly love God when they love Him for their own advantage. The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye — one seeing, one knowing, one love.”
Meister Eckhart, Predigten und Traktate