All posts tagged "Shame"

Bernie Madoff, the infamous Ponzi schemer who has been imprisoned since 2009, granted his second jailhouse interview since the beginning of his incarceration. Not only did he tell the Financial Times the long story of his deception and the reason he fell down the rabbit hole of fraud ("I was always outside the club, the club being the New York Stock Exchange and white shoe firms," he said. "They fought me every step of the way.") but some trivia about his life in prison.

The sheriff of Arizona's Maricopa county, Joe Arpaio, likes to portray himself as a hard man and merciless hunter of illegal immigrants, the boss of a prison where inmates live outdoors in tents, even in hellish summer heat.