His death was announced by the Bureau of Prisons. He was the sixth judge to address a motion to suppress in cases around the country, and he was the first to grant the motion. "[6] While a student at Princeton, Chin was a staff writer and later managing editor at The Daily Princetonian. In 2008, Madoff pleaded guilty to orchestrating a massive Ponzi scheme, in which instead of investing cash, he paid off older investors with funds from new investors. Last year, Madoff's lawyers filed court papers to try to get him released from prison in the COVID-19 pandemic, saying he had suffered from end-stage renal disease and other chronic medical conditions. I said, So basically youre splitting the baby? the judge remembered. Updated on: April 14, 2021 / 7:00 PM At the time of his arrest, fake account statements were telling clients they had holdings worth $60bn. So, you know, I've served. }, First published on February 26, 2008 / 5:54 PM. I'm Melissa Block. "I think you can overcome these things that's what I really think." Material from The Associated Press was used in this report. They had a $7 million Manhattan apartment, an $11 million estate in Palm Beach, Florida, and a $4 million home on the tip of Long Island. The Madoffs also took a severe financial hit: A judge issued a $171 billion forfeiture order in June 2009 stripping Madoff of all his personal property, including real estate, investments, and $80 million in assets his wife, Ruth, had claimed were hers. He concluded it was not reasonable to permit the government to search the homes and seize the computers of thousands of individuals merely because their e-mail addresses were entered into a web site, where, in addition to gaining access to child pornography, they could engage in text-based activities such as participating in chat rooms and answering surveys. Amanda Leith, a lawyer for NBC Universal, had no comment on the ruling. The ugly truth: No securities were ever bought or sold. The exact amount of the fraud has yet to be calculated, largely because it was so vast and went on for so long. They worked hard," said Thomas Morling, who worked closely with the Madoff brothers in the mid-1980s setting up and running computers that made their firm a trusted leader in off-floor trading. In the lawsuit, Patricia Conradt said NBC "steamrolled" police to arrest her brother after telling police he failed to show up at a sting operation 35 miles away. With the sentencing of Bernard L. Madoff only a week away, Judge Denny Chin received a letter from Mr. Madoffs lawyer asking for a prison term substantially below the 150-year maximum. When Klayman appealed, the 2nd Circuit affirmed Chin's sanctions. The Madoff family took a severe financial hit: a judge issued a $171bn forfeiture order in June 2009, stripping Madoff of all his personal property, including real estate, investments, and $80m in assets his wife, Ruth, had claimed were hers. Then Madoff turned and faced the victims and said, I know this will not help, I am sorry. As Michael Patrick noted when he introduced Judge Chin at the luncheon at which he received New York County Lawyers Association's Edward Weinfeld Award: "Denny presided over both high profile and low pro-file cases. Louis William Conradt Jr., a suburban Dallas prosecutor, fatally shot himself after he was accused of engaging in a sexually explicit online chat with an adult posing as a 13-year-old boy, according to a lawsuit filed by his sister. That was the number of victims allowed to speak. Madoff, 82, died at the Federal Medical Center in Butner, North Carolina, the bureau said in a statement. Just thought Id give you the heads up, Judge Gorenstein wrote. The company previously called the lawsuit "completely without merit." Madoff was sent to do what amounted to a life sentence at Butner Federal Correctional Complex, about 45 miles northwest of Raleigh, N.C. . He called clerking "difficult," but rewarding at the federal court level. Madoff responded: "There is no innocent explanation.". He was confirmed in April 2010 and took senior status in June 2021. [12] Chin assumed senior status on June 1, 2021. "You see how our system works," he said. On March 12, 2009, Madoff pleaded guilty to 11 federal charges relating to the scheme. 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Rogeriee Thompson for United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit", "Judge Who Sentenced Madoff to Be Nominated to Higher Court", "Obama names Madoff case judge to fill Sotomayor spot", "U.S. District Judge Denny Chin to Address Spring 2009 Law Graduates", "The Old Ones of Chinatown: A Study of the Elderly Chinese", "Denny Chin | Office of the Executive Vice President", "Judicial Nomination Materials: 111th Congress", "On the Nomination (Confirmation Denny Chin, of New York, to be U.S. "I think in time we'll get more Asian-American judges as these Asian-American litigators get more experience under their belts," he said. In McCosh Hall, outside Room 50 hangs a portrait of Judge Denny Chin. He insisted that he acted alone, describing a separate wholesale stock-trading firm run by his sons and brother as legitimate. More than 15,400 claims against Madoff were filed. In November 2013, Chin dismissed Authors Guild et al. Thanks (I guess) for spinning the wheel in my favor! Judge Chin wrote back. Authorities say that over the years, at least $13 billion was invested with Madoff. Bernard Madoffs Manhattan penthouse, Long Island getaway and Florida estate are for sale in the hopes of raising tens of millions of dollars to help reimburse victims of his Ponzi scheme. He also asks them a hypothetical, noting it is much more important to show balance and reasoning than arguing for a right or wrong answer. The benefits of giving him hope were far outweighed by all of the other considerations.. Madoffs scam cost Wiesels foundation $15.2m. Since his decision, one of the other judges has changed her mind and a third judge has suppressed as well. Extraordinarily evil - that was the judge's description today of the acts of Bernard Madoff. On March 23, 2011, Chin rejected Google's plan to digitize every book published, saying the plan violated copyright laws. [8] He was an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District from 1982 to 1986. Mr. Sorkin also proposed another option: 15 to 20 years. U.S. District Judge Denny Chin called the scope of the fraud "staggering" and gave the 71-year-old financier the maximum sentence allowed, ensuring Madoff would live out his days behind bars. Ruth is still living. Video, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece, Harry and Meghan told to 'vacate' Frogmore Cottage, China and Belarus call for peace in Ukraine, Rare Jurassic-era bug found at Arkansas Walmart, Ed Sheeran says wife developed tumour in pregnancy, Dozens of girls treated after new Iran poisonings, Man survives 31 days in jungle by eating worms. His son Mark also killed himself on the second anniversary of his father's arrest. "It was clear the only reason he asked me these questions was because I'm Asian-American," Chin said. Madoff's lawyers had dubbed the sentence beyond 12 years as having no practical purpose. He directed Klayman to explain the letter and in open court Klayman stated that he had written the letter because Chin was Asian. After the meeting, a lawyer for the family contacted regulators, who alerted federal prosecutors and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. "I also believe that Mr. Madoff was never truly remorseful, and that he was only sorry that his life as he knew it was collapsing around him," he wrote. I would tell the new citizens about my grandfather. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Madoff was born in 1938 in a lower-middle-class Jewish neighborhood in Queens. Copyright 2023 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. "It's real important for you to be involved," he said. US District Judge Denny Chin showed no mercy, sentencing Madoff to the maximum 150 years in prison. U.S. District Judge Denny Chin said, "Here, the message must be sent that Mr. Madoff's crimes were extraordinarily evil and that this kind of irresponsible manipulation of the system is not. Before the sentence was handed down, Madoff faced the wrath of nine of the hundreds of people he cheated in the fraud that wiped out fortunes large and small. In 1990, he joined the law firm Vladeck, Waldman, Elias & Engelhard, P.C., where he specialized in labor and employment law and represented employees and unions. In the 1980s, Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities occupied three floors of a midtown Manhattan high-rise. In the 1950s, he engineered and produced classical music albums for Angel Records. We're minorities in some ways, we've done well in some ways," he said, adding that it's still important to be involved in the Asian-American community, a goal Chin tries to honor by accepting as many invitations to events as possible. U.S. District Judge Denny Chin called the scope of the fraud "staggering" and gave the 71-year-old financier the maximum sentence allowed, ensuring Madoff would live out his days behind bars. The lawyer turned around and made a motion that Chin recuse himself from the case, saying Chin was "too hard on him because he was Asian-American.". Madoff was sent to do what amounted to a life sentence at Butner Federal Correctional Complex, about 45 miles northwest of Raleigh, North Carolina. .component--type-recirculation .item:nth-child(5) { As a federal judge in the Southern District of New York, Judge Denny Chin sees some of the most cutting-edge cases in the country, so much so that three of his cases were used as plots for the popular Law and Ordertelevision series. Judge Denny Chin called Madoffs crimes extraordinarily evil. Three weeks after Chin ruled on a commercial breach of contract case involving plaintiff's lawyer Larry Klayman, Klayman wrote a letter to Chin asking if he had any connection to John Huang or the Democratic National Committee. US District Judge Denny Chin sentenced Madoff to the maximum possible term. ", He claimed he and his wife were tormented, saying she "cries herself to sleep every night, knowing all the pain and suffering I have caused.". Another dilemma, he said, rested in the fact that because none of the counts against Mr. Madoff carried a sentence of life imprisonment (indeed, none carried more than 20 years), he could not impose a conventional life sentence. Madoff's wife, Ruth, is still living. Yet symbolism was important, he said, given the enormity of Mr. Madoffs crimes. And I got into Bernie Madoff. By giving Bernard L. Madoff a term of 150 years, Judge Denny Chin seemed to find a way to translate society's rage into a number. There was also Carla Hirshhorn, who said she was thankful that her father died before he realized that his wife's financial security was ruined. The New York Times also interviewed Mr. Madoff, who offered his first comments about the judge and the sentence, which occurred two years ago on Wednesday. But no man is.". About a dozen Madoff employees and associates were charged in the federal case. At that point, the judge said, symbolism carried more weight.. As he had from the start, Madoff insisted in his plea that he acted alone something the FBI never believed. Madoff was in a bathrobe when two FBI agents arrived at his door unannounced on a December morning. ", Trending News From his decision ruling that Megan's Law could not be applied retroactively to offenders convicted before the law was enacted (earning him the unwelcome nickname of "pervert's pal" from detractors), to his decision overruling former Mayor Rudy Giuliani's decision to block the Million Youth March, led by controversial black power leader Khallid Abdul Muhammad, Chin sees it all. We thought he was God; we trusted everything in his hands, Elie Wiesel, the late Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate, said in the same year. Madoff was in a bathrobe when two FBI agents arrived at his door unannounced on a December morning. Madoff's other son, Andrew, died from cancer at age 48. The United States Senate confirmed Chin on August 9, 1994, and Chin received his commission the next day. But the most forceful number in federal court this morning was nine. "But I did not believe he was genuinely remorseful," he recalled. DiPascali recounted for jurors how just before the scheme was exposed, Madoff called him into his office. Chin was born in 1954 in Kowloon, Hong Kong and came to the U.S. in 1956. February 26, 2008 / 5:54 PM 5089. Extraordinarily evil By the time Judge Chin entered his chambers on the morning of Monday, June 29, he had decided what his draft was missing, he said. "One of the best things I did as a judge over the years was to preside over the naturalization ceremony. [16], In Fox v. Franken, Chin denied Fox News Channel (who alleged a trademark violation) an injunction against Al Franken's Book Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right. One of the traditional notions of punishment, he wrote, is that an offender should be punished in proportion to his blameworthiness. Mr. Madoffs crimes were extraordinarily evil, he added. As Judge Denny Chin noted, the Madoff take is quite literally off the charts. This contrasted with Madoff's attorney, Ira Sorkin, who spoke in a halting and, at times, qualified language. Last year his lawyers filed court papers to try to get him released from prison during the pandemic, saying he had end-stage renal disease and other chronic medical conditions. Splitting the baby, to me, was sending the wrong message, he said. [25] On June 29, 2009, Chin accepted the prosecutor's recommendation to sentence Madoff to a prison term of 150 years, thus effectively handing down a life sentence. From 1994 until his appointment to the Second Circuit, he served as a United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York. His service as a district court judge was terminated on April 26, 2010, when he was elevated to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. The amount includes all his personal property, real estate, investments and $80 million in assets that his wife who has not been charged had claimed were hers. Covering the final, emotional hearing in Federal Judge Denny Chin's courtroom in downtown Manhattan in March 2009, I sat two rows behind Bernie--later sentenced to 150 years in prison--when. Judge Denny Chin, who now sits on the 2nd U.S. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information. "They're now Madoff schemes. "We never quite got the hang of developing business that was the hard part," he said. But in truth no securities were ever bought or sold. At various times, he referred to his monumental fraud as a "problem," "an error of judgment" and "a tragic mistake. Pak was convicted by a jury and sentenced by Chin to 5 years in prison.[20]. The students were about 55 percent Asian-American, when the population in New York City is only about 10 percent Asian-American. Consistently ranked among the top law schools, Virginia is a world-renowned training ground for distinguished lawyers and public servants, instilling in them a commitment to leadership, integrity and community service. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. A former law clerk had e-mailed him to say that more than a dozen television trucks were already lined up near the courthouse. Chin spoke informally to students in a discussion organized by the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association (APALSA) April 1 at the Law School. He is now a United States circuit judge for the Second Circuit. Denny Chin, Southern District of New York Court site, "Chin Shares Experiences as Federal District Court Judge, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Denny_Chin&oldid=1133235341, This page was last edited on 12 January 2023, at 20:46. The request was denied. U.S. District Judge Denny Chin sentenced Madoff to the maximum possible term. Fraudster sentenced to 150 years in jail dies from natural causes, New York financier ran scheme that cheated investors of billions. He said a jury might conclude it was done solely to sensationalize and enhance the entertainment value of the arrest. The terms require the Madoffs to sell a $7 million Manhattan apartment where Ruth Madoff still lives. You would've never saw it coming. It was symbolic. The authoritative record of NPRs programming is the audio record. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Chin described one difficult case, the "Candyman" case, where federal agents had issued subpoenas around the country to anyone who had submitted their email address to a web site that gave access to child pornography once you were made a member through that address. "I saw what a great job [being a federal judge] was," he said. [23], In 2012, Chin presided over the criminal sentencing of Anil Kumar, a senior executive of McKinsey and Company in the Galleon Group insider trading investigation. "They were two struggling kids from Queens. Madoff admitted swindling thousands of clients out of billions of dollars in investments over decades. There, with his brother and later two sons, he ran a legitimate business as middlemen between the buyers and sellers of stock. He invited them in, then confessed after being asked "if there's an innocent explanation," a criminal complaint said. Read about our approach to external linking. A judge issued a forfeiture order stripping Madoff of all his personal property, including real estate, investments, and $80 million in assets his wife, Ruth, had claimed were hers. Judge Chin said he was particularly moved by an account of a man who had invested his life savings with Mr. Madoff, then died of a heart attack two weeks later. Good candidates will often lead the question into a conversation. Im surprised Chin didnt suggest stoning in the public square, he added. Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit)", "2nd Circ. "It is probably the most important trial court in the country, given its location in New York City," Chin said. He clerked for the Honorable Henry F. Werker in the Southern District of New York; was associated with the law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell; served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; was a founding partner of the law firm Campbell, Patrick & Chin; and was a partner at a firm specializing in labor and employment law, Vladeck, Waldman & Engelhard, P.C. In a society governed by the rule of law, he wrote, the message had to be sent that Mr. Madoff would get what he deserves, and would be punished according to his moral culpability.. "I cannot adequately express how sorry I am for what I have done," he said in March 2009, when he pleaded guilty. Judge Chin agreed to an extensive series of interviews as part of a broader look into his sentencings in Federal District Court in Manhattan, which will appear in a later article. Madoff raised his profile by using the expertise to help launch Nasdaq, the first electronic stock exchange, and became so respected that he advised the Securities and Exchange Commission on the system. "Life has been a living hell. Menaka Guruswamy, Arundhati Katju Helped Win Landmark Ruling in India, Consumer Information (ABA Required Disclosures), Asian Pacific American Law Students Association (APALSA), Jamar Walker 11 Makes History as First LGBT Federal Judge in Virginia, Sean Onwualu 24 Trades in Playbooks for Casebooks, LGBT Rights Litigators To Receive Jefferson Medals in Law, Big Data and War: Can a Cyberattack Warrant an Armed Response? Please enter valid email address to continue. U.S. District Judge Denny Chin showed no mercy, sentencing Madoff to the maximum 150 years in prison. Michael Schwartz counted himself as lucky, at least compared to his disabled twin brother, whose ability to live in a good group home was destroyed by Bernie Madoff. He said there may be parts of the country that are less tolerant, noting that there's no question that some Asian-American lawyers feel held back. In explaining how the 150-year sentence was symbolically important, he had neglected to include a third, crucial reason: retribution. His clients, many Jews like Madoff and Jewish charities, said they didn't know. Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images Totally a nice guy, understated, unassuming, fell for it lock, stock and barrel. He would include the story in his draft. [2][3][4] Chin was the first Asian American appointed as a United States District Judge outside of the Ninth Circuit. He said he struggled to find the right number the just sentence, as he described it. [1] [2] Prior to his appointment, Chin served as a judge on the United States District Court for the Southern . The purpose of this site is to provide information from and about the Judicial Branch of the U.S. Government. [11] He received his judicial commission on April 23, 2010. [7] In 1978, Chin graduated from Fordham University School of Law with a Juris Doctor, where he was the Managing Editor of the Fordham Law Review. I would literally take his naturalization petition, which I have framed in my chambers, and hold it up to the citizens.". On October 6, 2009, President Barack Obama nominated Chin to the Second Circuit. "I realised that my arrest and this day would inevitably come.". How do you excuse deceiving your family, your investors and an industry you spent your life trying to improve? After the sentencing, Ruth Madoff said in a statement that she felt "betrayed and confused" by the actions of her husband. With membership, the site offered the options of chat rooms, surveys, and "vids and pics" for "people who like kids." "He stole from the rich. In December 2010, Madoffs eldest son, Mark, was found hanged in his New York apartment on the second anniversary of the billionaire investment managers arrest for what was then described the biggest swindle in Wall Street history. in psychology from Princeton University in 1975 after completing a 130-page long senior thesis titled "The Old Ones of Chinatown: A Study of the Elderly Chinese. But he added that it was important to remember the history of Asians in the United States, and mentioned in particular the Korematsu case and the Japanese internment camps during World War II. 2023 by the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia. The United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary reported Chin's nomination to the full Senate on December 10, 2009[10] and he was confirmed by a 980 vote on April 22, 2010. "Here, the message must be sent that Mr. Madoff's crimes were extraordinarily evil and that this kind of irresponsible manipulation of the system is not merely a bloodless financial crime that takes place just on paper, but it is instead one that takes a staggering human toll," Chin said. [9][13], In 2001, Chin rejected a motion by the Parents Television Council (PTC) to dismiss a lawsuit that the World Wrestling Federation (now World Wrestling Entertainment) filed against it. His brother, Peter, who helped run the business, was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2012, despite claims he was in the dark about his brothers misdeeds. All rights reserved. Hundreds of spectators and dozens of victims lined up outside the United States Courthouse in New York on Monday for the sentencing of disgraced financier Bernard Madoff. He stole from the in between. 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He had no values, former investor Tom Fitzmaurice told the judge at the sentencing. By giving Bernard L. Madoff a term of 150 years, Judge Denny Chin seemed to find a way to translate society's rage into a number. As a federal judge in the Southern District of New York, Judge Denny Chin sees some of the most cutting-edge cases in the country, so much so that three of his cases were used as plots for the popular Law and Order television series.But Chin's position is unique for another reason as well he was the first Asian-American appointed to a federal district court judgeship outside the 9th . Victims of Mr Madoff's fraud included celebrities and everyday people, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. Madoff, known as Bernie, was a former chairman of the Nasdaq stock exchange, and was regarded for years as an investment sage. The order left her with $2.5m. Chin assumed senior status on June 1, 2021. 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