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The big Mob boss got less time for tax fraud than Madoff, 143 years less, to be exact.
The original “Scarface” ruled Chicago’s underworld with an iron first before being nailed in 1931 for tax evasion. Capone’s crew is widely regarded as the gang that machine-gunned seven associates of Bugs Moran in the famous St. Valentine’s Day Massacre in 1929. He was sentenced to 11 years and fined about $300,000. He got released in 1939 after serving seven-and-a-half years of his sentence. He suffered from syphilis, and died in 1947 on his estate on Palm Island, Florida.
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His cult’s murder spree got him a death sentence, but now he’s serving a life term.
In 1969, Mason’s “family” of followers murdered actress Sharon Tate and six others. He had encouraged them to lash out at Hollywood and the entertainment industry after his failed attempts to become a musician. Manson and three women stood trial for murder and in early 1971, he was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder. He and two of the women were sentenced to death but California soon abolished the death penalty. Now, he’s serving life with the possibility of parole.
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Bundy was a hunky, well-educated killer who confessed to 30 murders between 1973 and 1978. He often targeted young women and coeds, who gravitated to his good looks, charm, and—usually exaggerated—accomplishment. Bundy killed in Washington, Idaho, Utah, and Colorado before getting arrested in Florida in 1978. Bundy was given two death sentences.
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How Madoff's 150 Years Stack Up
Infamy loves company and as far as the ranks of the nefarious go, Bernie Madoff has carved out a special place. The 150-year sentence he got for running a $50 billion Ponzi scheme is considerably more than Al Capone got for tax evasion and 20 years more than a serial killer and suspected cannibal in Montana. The Daily Beast compares Madoff to a rogues’ gallery of legendary crooks. By Ned Eisenberg
The Junk Bond King went from being a poster boy for greed to an icon in the war against cancer.
In the 1980s, Milken, Ivan Boesky and a handful of others transformed Wall Street into a world of predatory deals and previously unimagined wealth. By 1989, though, the Securities & Exchange Commission hit him with 98 counts of racketeering and securities fraud. He was originally given a 10-year sentence but served only 22 months. Diagnosed with prostate cancer and given just 12 to 18 months to live, Milken survived and now is a leading fundraiser for cancer research.
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The cannibal and pedophile who got 20 years less than Madoff.
Bar-Jonah’s career began when at 14, he dressed up as a policeman and assaulted an 8 year old boy after luring him into a car. He served time in a psychiatric institution following his kidnapping and attempted murder of two young boys, but in 1991, was put back on the streets. In Montana, Bar-Jonah carried out a series of kidnappings, sexual assaults, and murders of young boys, and may have once cooked up a child from the neighborhood, serving him to guests and even the boy's own family. He was given a 130-year prison sentence, but died in 2008 from a blocked artery while serving his time.
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Jeffrey Dahmer murdered 17 men and boys between the years of 1978 and 1991, mostly targeting those of African and Asian descent. When a would-be victim escaped and alerted the police, they found an extensive inventory of severed heads and body parts throughout his apartment, quickly generating notoriety. Dahmer was arrested in 1991 and sentenced to 936 years in prison. He was beaten to death in prison by a fellow inmate, Christopher Scarver.
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In many ways I think that is true. If I were stripped bare at this time of my life I would be put into very cruel conditions in which I either had to live and start over, or take my own life because I couldn't handle the pressure and disappointment; caused by someone such as Maddoff. People who do evil things in terms of harm they do to others are probably evil.
The French woman whho killed 3 of her babies and commited their bodies to the family freezer got 8 years. While the woman who killed Edouard Stern (one of the world's wealthiest men) for money was sentenced to 8.5 years by a Swiss court.
Money is the new god. If you have a lot of money god favors you. Murdering someone is the worst thing one can do but taking their money really creates the most severe outcry.
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