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Bernie Madoff Doesn’t Sound Particularly Remorseful

Posted on June 8, 2010 by Caleb Newquist

“Well, that’s what I did.”

~ Bernie Madoff’s to a fellow prisoner telling him that taking advantage of old ladies was “kind of fucked up.”

Posted in Quote of the DayTagged Bernie Madoff, Fraud, Quote of the Day

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