Ohhh Bernie. Tomorrow Mr. Madoff’s three boats and his CLK go on sale. Get’cha paypa out. [National Liquidators]
Everything is getting a design/collab upgrade these days. Check out this polka-dot stove by Emma Bridgewater for AGA Rangemasters. Craze. [Apartment Therapy]
It’s a Comme des Garcons Christmas! Yay! [High Snobiety]
The Motorola Droid sold 250,000 units in it’s debut week. Not the 1.6 of the iPhone 3GS, but impressive. Let’s go! [Mashable]
The Alpha Air Jordan 1. Apparently the “Alpha” means a more comfortable, full length zoom bag. As long as it comes in black and red, we don’t really care what it does, though. [The Shoe Game]
By now we all know about Bernie Madoff’s corporate gangsta, with the $50 billion ponzi scheme he pulled on thousands of investors. But who woulda thunk the billionaire conman was down to get gully in the yard?
According to reports, 71-year-old Madoff floored a fellow inmate after getting into it about the state of the stock market! Sure, it’s not an Aryan Brotherhood blood vendetta or enlisting the other guy into sexual servitude, but it sounds fucking jailish to us. It’s tough enough for the average Joe to survive prison without ended up in a scene straight out of American History X, but it’s a given that anyone with celebrity is gonna have to knuckle up from time to time; after all, “famous and scraped” > “anally raped.” So in a nod to Badass Bernie and his combative compatriots, here’s a brief history of other celebrity prison fights…
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Bernie Madoff’s sentencing this week was bittersweet justice for victims of the largest Ponzi scheme in world history. I mean, he was definitely doing his numbers, no doubt. The staggering $50 billion scam was a fraud of goliath proportions not seen since the U.S. invasion of Iraq. But long before Madoff was holding ‘weekends at Bernie's’ with his elite investors, others had been running cruel Ponzi schemes into the ground. Here are some of the most lucrative cases:
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