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Bernie Madoff's Programmers Arrested

ZipK writes "With their former boss cooling his heels on a 150-year sentence, programmers Jerome O'Hara and George Perez are now in the US Attorney's crosshairs. They've been arrested and charged with criminal conspiracy, and 'accused of producing false documents and trading records at Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC in New York.' Apparently Madoff's fraud was too large and too complex to be foisted entirely by hand."

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  1. Re:Moral of the story: by NotBornYesterday · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... and when your boss gets 150 years, get your ass to a country without an extradition treaty with the US.

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  2. crontab by El_Muerte_TDS · · Score: 4, Funny

    Apparently Madoff's fraud was too large and too complex to be foisted entirely by hand

    And that's why we have cellscripts and conjobs

  3. What's the motivation? by cryfreedomlove · · Score: 4, Funny

    There are so many great opportunities out there for making a legitimate living programming that it makes me wonder why these guys volunteered to spend the best years of their lives stealing from people.

  4. Re:Moral of the story: by Tumbleweed · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you destroy evidence, make sure you destroy the backups, too.

    Also, make sure you destroy evidence of your destruction of evidence and backups.

  5. Re:Moral of the story: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Should have used perl.

  6. Re:Moral of the story: by skine · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't forget to destroy the evidence of your destruction of the evidence of the destruction of the evidence and backups and its backups and its backups.

  7. Re:Moral of the story: by Tumbleweed · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't forget to destroy the evidence of your destruction of the evidence of the destruction of the evidence and backups and its backups and its backups.

    This is going to turn into one of two things: A painting of Stephen Colbert, or an episode of Black Adder.

    I'm good with either outcome, really.

  8. Re:Moral of the story: by Wuhao · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... and when your boss gets 150 years, get your ass to a country without an extradition treaty with the US.

    Polanski's corollary: Stay there.

  9. Re:Alan Johnson is a twat by NotBornYesterday · · Score: 5, Funny

    any particular kind of metal you'd like the chains made from

    Mercury.

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  10. "Bernie Madoff's Programmers Arrested"???... by Dogtanian · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...Oh My God! Does this mean Bernie Madoff was a robot?

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