Dealing with smug bastards who say they didn't invest with Madoff

He seems very angry at the world. I dont know anyone involved in this scandal but I do question his calling of bullshit on people conencted with 9/11. He seems to be saying too many people have known people who were in the buildings, or who were in the buildings and survived ect.

The Boston Phoenix is in Boston, which is very close to NYC and the planes started off in Boston. Many people who would go to those buildings, or work there are very socially connected people who would know lots of different people all over the place, and most likely know people from Boston which is less then a few hours away and is most likely where they went to school. It was also a huge building with thousands of workers and thousands of visitors and who knows how many people were in the immediate area as well. The writer fails to think that maybe, just maybe some of these stories were about the SAME person... Maybe my friend has hundreds of other people in Boston that he knows, and they are all telling the same story. Takes those hundreds and add on their friends and aquaintences. One persons story could easily reach thousands of people via "A friend of a friend was supposed to go into the tower." Multiply that by all the people in the tower and make sure you take into account the Boston=NYC connections and you can very quickly figure out why it seems like so many people knew someone or knew someone who died/was saved/was supposed to go to the buildings, its because most of us do have those immediate connections. I know 3 people who were supposed to be in the buildings that day later on, 5 people through a friend who were in the area, 2 people through a friend who died in the planes etc. I believe most of them, and also know that there are hundreds of people who "know" these same people, which distorts the numbers and makes it seem like there are more claims then there really are.

A large percentage of the money Bernie swindled came from South Florida.
A large portion of the money in South Florida comes as flight capital from South America.
A large portion of THAT money is connected with the drug trade, through money laundering.
Ergo, the odds of at least SOME of that $50 billion belonging to a cartel are virtually 100%.
These guys are not known for their sense of humor. I'm guessing that right now, the U. S. Government is the least of Mr. Madoff's problems....

It was in poor taste.

Worse, it wasn't funny.