{"id":164,"date":"2009-03-11T09:50:52","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T13:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=164"},"modified":"2009-03-18T13:08:10","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T17:08:10","slug":"madoff-pleading-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/03\/11\/madoff-pleading-guilty\/","title":{"rendered":"Madoff pleading guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Law Professor <a title=\"Tamar Frankel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/faculty\/profiles\/bios\/full-time\/frankel_t.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tamar Frankel<\/a>, an authority on securities law and legal ethics who is writing a book on Ponzi schemes, says Bernard Madoff is smart to plead guilty.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;It seems that Madoff&#8217;s strategy is to confess, shorten all proceedings as much as possible, avoid jury trial almost at all costs, perhaps serve some time in\u00a0prison &#8211; if impossible to avoid &#8211; and then life will start again.\u00a0 He did not take the route that Enron&#8217;s management has taken, to deny and protest the innocence that was not there.\u00a0 Wiser for him.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Tamar Frankel, 617-353-3773, <a href=\"mailto:tfrankel@bu.edu\">tfrankel@bu.edu<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Law Professor Tamar Frankel, an authority on securities law and legal ethics who is writing a book on Ponzi schemes, says Bernard Madoff is smart to plead guilty. &#8220;It seems that Madoff&#8217;s strategy is to confess, shorten all proceedings as much as possible, avoid jury trial almost at all costs, perhaps serve some time in\u00a0prison [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[584,563,583,114],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}