Tuesday, June 30, 2009

150 Years for Madoff -- What Happened to the Parsimony Clause?


Remember Alec Baldwin opposite Meg Ryan in Prelude to a Kiss? Well he is now looking more middle-aged but has taken his sharp observations to politics. See his blog at huffington post or his interview on Bill Maher (HBO Real Time) or Letterman. He's nailed it on the Madoff case. How on earth was 150 years "not greater than necessary" to achieve the purposes of punishment? Isn't Madoff like 85?