Thursday, March 12, 2009

Madoff - disgraced financier?

A front page column in yesterday's Wall Street Journal starts with the following sentence:

Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff is expected to plead guilty on Thursday to 11 felony charges stemming from his decades-long Ponzi scheme, likely putting him in prison for the rest of his life.



"Disgraced financier" indeed. If I understand correctly, this guy was crooked from the beginning.
So, accordingly, perhaps we might call a rapist or wife-beater a "disgraced ladies' man"?

1 comment:

Mary Lois said...

Good one!

I'm going to be very interested if they don't throw the book at his wife too--don't see how anybody could think she was not in on the scheme.

"Disgraced assistant financier"?