Madoff baseball tickets to be sold on eBay
Bernard Madoff is still making a market, at least his Citi Field seats are. The two tickets for Monday’s Citi Field opener owned by Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities were bid up to $2,325 by 8 p.m. EDT Friday on eBay. Seats 5-6 in the eighth row in section 11, just to the home plate side of the New York Mets’ dugout, are being sold by the trustee overseeing the liquidation of Madoff’s businesses.
Hurry-deadline is coming
Thirty-six bids had been made for the tickets, which are called Delta Club Gold and come with access to the Delta Club behind home plate. The tickets retail for $525 apiece, and there is a deadline of 9:56 a.m. EDT Sunday to bid for the seats.
There are more tickets coming
The lawyer unraveling Madoff’s multi-billion dollar empire, Irving Picard, worked out a deal with the Mets, returning to the team two $695 seats in the second row, called Delta Club Platinum, in exchange for the pair being sold on eBay. Links for other April tickets to be sold will be posted on Picard’s Web site, www.madofftrustee.com.
Want to see the Mets play the Padres or Milwaukee?
Two tickets for each of the remaining games against the Padres, on April 15-16, and for the three-game series against Milwaukee from April 17-19 were put on sale on StubHub.com. Those tickets are selling for $450 each.
Where’s Madoff?
The Mets are due to play their first home game at Citi Field on April 13. Madoff is in custody in Manhattan awaiting sentencing in June on 11 criminal counts to which he plead guilty last month. He’s gonna miss this game and he was known to be a keen New York Mets fan.
I lost out too
This announcement is a great pity for me personally. I was planning on taking some Payday Cash Advance Loans and contacting Bernie directly and offering to take over his tickets.
It gets worse
On the other side of the Atlantic, namely the Côte d’Azur, French authorities have seized Madoff’s yacht following legal action by a Paris-based investment group seeking to reimburse customers who lost out in the $50 billion fraud. A bailiff chained the propellers on the “Bull”, Madoff’s 88 foot long cruiser in the harbor in Cap d’Antibes near Nice on the Mediterranean coast.
Major judicial problems is right!
A notice attached to the yacht, which is estimated to be worth $7 million, reads: “Important: Do not turn on the motors. Major judicial problems will result if anyone attempts to remove this boat.”
The move comes after the Bull’s sister yacht was seized in the U.S. last week, along with another boat and Madoff’s mansion in Palm Beach, Florida, amid a worldwide scramble by investors to lay claim to his $820 million fortune.
And even worse…
There is a list of Madoff’s victims on the internet in a Wall Street Journal Site. I scanned through it and I am stunned. There are many, many genuine charities in there, some of them with Gi-normous losses. I understand that the banks lost large amounts – but that means that no one at the bank was ‘bankish’ enough to wonder what was going on and put a limit on the bank’s investments. The charities are somewhat different; they were trying to help their fundraising activities as much as they could.
These are the cases that will haunt Madoff for the rest of his days.
Bernard Madoff is not a she (her steels) nor comprised of coke fire treated iron. (Steel – iron that is treated over a coke, baked coal that is, fire.) And, last time the numbers were run, the entire payday loan industry does less business in dollar amounts than Madoff made off with. Also, he stole from charitable foundations along with individuals, some of which include people like Sandy Koufax and Elie Wiesel, author of Night. Let us also not get into the FDIC and Federal Reserve studies that concluded, with things like facts and empirical evidence, that areas where payday lending is available have a lower rate of foreclosure and overdraft fee charges. Madoff, however, has put a lot of people in the poor house, robbed senior citizens of their pensions, and induced at least one person thus far into suicide. Payday loans haven’t done that kind of damage.
You must love Madoff, he is a scamer just like you, except her steels from the rich, and you steel from the poor. I have more respect for him. Shame on you.