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Madoff made billions from this.

      There is no indication of this. His collection of properties and luxeries were quite modest for a renowned legendary career trader on Wall Street who co-founded NASDAQ.

      As for the programmers, they lived in average midde class homes. They asked for a bonus of $60,000 but were fed up with what they were being asked to do, which was to rig up some information for auditors. I've looked at this in some detail (they were AS/400 programmers, and so am I), and it's unclear to me how misled they were.

      As far as that goes, all the employees on the 17th floor were told the trades they thought they were doing settled in Europe (London Exchange?).

      Clearly there were various activities at times of rigging up fake trades and entering them for reporting, but they all seemed to believe that Madoff was doing something with the account funds and just needed something to report. Fraudulent? Yes. Conspiracy with Madoff? No.

      I've blogged what I could determine of it all as the story unwound last year.

      Was Bernie Madoff really running a Ponzi scheme?
      http://www.justiceforchandra.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3875

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      A different approach is to realize that we're not going to have any appreciable effect on a communist country like China. Nor will we be in any position to place monitors there and judge what is humane enough.

      We need to deal with this from our viewpoint by charging import taxes on goods from countries we are running a trade deficit with. We need to raise the import taxes on imports from a country (or class of countries the goods are passing through) as high as it takes to bring trade in balance with that country or group of countries.

      It doesn't matter how many shortcuts China takes in labor and environmental conditions, they will never rise to western civilization standards and will always produce goods cheaper than our own. But as long as they are purchasing an equal amount of US goods, that's their business.

      A solution for our trade deficit
      http://www.justiceforchandra.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1397

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Just saying that there were small drops of blood isn't really enough.

      The floor of the car had been saturated with it and had been cleaned. Also the wall of a room in the house where they were arguing.

There really hasn't been enough information released to the public for us to form an accurate picture of any series of events.

      There's been plenty of information reported. It is summarized in a thread with unadulterated opinion on my site at:

Noted coder Hans Reiser arrested for wife's disappearance
http://www.justiceforchandra.com/forums/viewtopic. php?t=2899

  rd

The minivan was 'spotted' Sept 5th? But 'found' on Sept 9th? Groceries inside? When did the reciept show the groceries were purchased? Before she dropped the kids off or after? If it was after, something is fishy. Grocery store surveilance cameras?
Hmmmmmm.

      Yeah, that was my big question in the beginning too. But she went to the grocery store with the kids on the way to Reiser's house (who was staying with his mom during the divorce).

      I have an analysis of the case at http://www.justiceforchandra.com/forums/viewtopic. php?t=2899

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They were already almost divorced, that doesn't seem very likely at all.

      You are joking, aren't you? I've got a site full of missing women who were almost divorced.

http://www.justiceforchandra.com/

This news from SuSE, however, is very old already and apparently they indeed decided about this before Reiser got arrested.

      Thanks for that link. I just saw this interesting comment there from Jeff Mahoney at Suse Labs:

http://linux.wordpress.com/2006/09/27/suse-102-dit ching-reiserfs-as-it-default-fs
(excerpt)

ReiserFS v3 is a dead end. Hans has been pushing reiser4 for years now
and declared Reiser3 in maintenance mode. Any changes that aren't bug
fixes are met with violent resistance.

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      I have some thoughts on the case of Nina Reiser on my site at:
Noted coder Hans Reiser arrested for wife's disappearance
http://www.justiceforchandra.com/forums/viewtopic. php?t=2899

  rd

Personally, I'm having a hard time understanding how Hans would have been able to do this without his children seeing what was going on, but without knowing all the facts, it's hard to draw a conclusion.

      I have a thread with my thoughts on it at
Noted coder Hans Reiser arrested for wife's disappearance
http://www.justiceforchandra.com/forums/viewtopic. php?t=2899

      There are other cases like this as in, for example, Sue Ann Ray in the Atlanta area. The guy leaves his estranged wife's vehicle somewhere looking like she went shopping after dropping something off at his house, but she in fact had never made it out of his house alive.

      In this case it looks to me like he left the children with his mother at home after she dropped them off and followed his estranged wife to the supermarket and attacked her similar to the murder of college student Dru Sjodin in a mall parking lot in North Dakota.

      Several bags of groceries were found in her minivan, however, I saw no mention of anyone such as a checkout clerk in the store saying they saw her. It could have been after she came out, or he could have bought the groceries to place her at the supermarket, which is the critical piece of making it look like a stranger attacked her in a parking lot, such as for example Tracey Tetso whose car was found in a parking lot in Baltimore.

      In all these cases the women disappear, and the ex ain't talking. Unfortunately, the site is full of them.

  rd

Presumably he has the greatest motive as well, but that's neither here nor there; he cannot deflect suspicion from himself by claiming his motives were contrary, or that the motive was not sufficient, because presumptively we are looking for somebody who thinks abnormally.

      This analysis is entirely wrong. Motive is everything in the cases of missing ex-wives, and the thinking is unfortunately logical in the attempt to be successful, not abnormal.

  rd
http://www.justiceforchandra.com/

Based on his history, he is waaaaaaaaaaaay to smart and knows what would happen if his wife dissapeared.

      More importantly, he knew what would happen if she didn't disappear. A court date for non-payment of child support was coming up, and he was $170K in the hole, broke and bitter.

      The divorce wasn't final, and if she disappears not only does he no longer have child support payments to her, but possibly collects a life insurance policy on her. See Scott Peterson. Laci Peterson's disappearance is covered on http://www.justiceforchandra.com/ also.

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Another disturbing thing is you'll see in many of these articles that the police claim Reiser was the last one to see his wife. However, the facts of the state that she went shopping after she left his house; her car was found with the groceries she bought. Clearly then, he was not the last person his wife, as the checker at the supermarket obviously interacted with her.
I dont see how the story works: she drops the kids at his house, she goes shopping, and then..how does he end up killing her? He has the kids with him..at home..she's on the road. When does he have the opportunity to kill her?

      There are cases like this on my site http://www.justiceforchandra.com/ as in, for example, Sue Ann Ray in the Atlanta area. The guy leaves his estranged wife's vehicle somewhere looking like she went shopping after dropping something off at his house, but she in fact had never made it out of his house alive.

      In this case it looks to me like he left the children with his mother at home after she dropped them off and followed his estranged wife to the supermarket and attacked her similar to the murder of college student Dru Sjodin in a mall parking lot in North Dakota.

      Several bags of groceries were found in her minivan, however, I saw no mention of anyone such as a checkout clerk in the store saying they saw her. It could have been after she came out, or he could have bought the groceries to place her at the supermarket, which is the critical piece of making it look like a stranger attacked her in a parking lot, such as for example Tracey Tetso whose car was found in a parking lot in Baltimore.

      In all these cases the women disappear, and the ex ain't talking. Unfortunately, the site is full of them.

  rd

A person like Hans, who has the intelligence and persistence (no pun intended) to put together a complicated and successful OSS project is smart enough to know that there's no way in hell he's going to get away with murdering his wife with whom he is waging a custody battle.

      I've got a site full of missing women cases that says otherwise.

  rd

http://www.justiceforchandra.com/

And what about Jessica Lunsford's killer? All he did was cross the street. He wasn't where he wasn't supposed to be until he fled to Georgia. What if his trashmen left his trash cans on the wrong side of the street? Will an alarm go off when he's within 50 yards of a house where a potential victim lives? Imagine taking care of THAT database! Who defines where are the places he's allowed to go? Yes they would have figured out right away that he did it, but it wouldn't have saved her life. If you're going to strip liberties, at least make it worth it. (not-so-subliminal rabidity activation scheme here)

It should only be GPS recording, not real time monitoring of location. However what this does is nail people on parole who are somewhere they aren't supposed to be, in Couey's case living somewhere different than he gave as his address as required by law.

They would be pulled back into jail if they aren't where they're supposed to be, in other words, it puts teeth into monitoring people on probation.

I discuss in in the free online book Murder on a Horse Trail: The Disappearance of Chandra Levy
http://www.justiceforchandra.com/forums/viewforum. php?f=32

rd

I'm not a sex offender, nor have I ever been one, but I do think this is going a little overboard, unless we're talking about using it just to enforce the conditions of their parole and not tacking on new restrictions that weren't previously being made.

Yes, but with registered sex offenders it's lifetime parole. I discuss in the free online book Murder on a Horse Trail: The Disappearance of Chandra Levy
http://www.justiceforchandra.com/forums/viewforum. php?f=32

rd

It's a good true crime murder mystery published on my web site in which I end with calling for GPS tracking of sex offenders. Give it a look.

Murder on a Horse Trail: The Disappearance of Chandra Levy http://www.justiceforchandra.com/forums/viewforum. php?f=32

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