This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Instead, he was required to stack the maximum sentences for each count they totaled 150 years to calculate a recommended sentence under the federal advisory guidelines. Chin was born on May 18, 1955, in Guangdong province, Mainland China.He was the only child of Bing Hing "David" Chin (a.k.a. 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. 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The judge ultimately concluded that even that would have been just way too low., In the end, I just thought he didnt deserve it, he said. President Bill Clinton nominated Chin to the district court on March 24, 1994, and Chin was confirmed August 9 of that same year. 2023 BBC. "It was clear the only reason he asked me these questions was because I'm Asian-American," Chin said. Cheryl Weinstein said, Bernard Madoff dresses like us, walks like us, eats and drinks like us, but underneath, he is a beast. As far as we know, Sorkin said, there was no ferreting away of funds. Madoff's wife, Ruth, is still living. At both levels, Judge Chin was the first Asian American federal judge outside the Ninth Circuit. Judge Chin would impose a term of 150 years on Mr. Madoff, perhaps the most stunning and widely discussed sentencing in the history of American white-collar crime. The bureau said Madoff's cause of death would be determined by a medical examiner. Bernie Madoff, the financier who pleaded guilty to orchestrating the largest Ponzi scheme in history, died in a federal prison Wednesday, the federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed to CBS News.. I mean, serial killers get a death sentence, but thats virtually what he gave me.. A few days before the sentencing, Judge Chins law clerks and interns joined him for their weekly lunch around a large wooden table in his chambers. All rights reserved. After the meeting, a lawyer for the family contacted regulators, who alerted federal prosecutors and the FBI. For decades, Madoff enjoyed an image as a self-made financial guru whose Midas touch defied market fluctuations. Chin assumed senior status on June 1, 2021. Thanks (I guess) for spinning the wheel in my favor! Judge Chin wrote back. "I'm looking for people who are smart, I'm looking for people I can work with," said Chin, who gets 500 applications for clerkships every year. He was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York before joining the federal appeals bench. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. He began his Wall Street career in 1960 alongside his brother Peter with a few thousand dollars saved from working as a lifeguard and installing sprinklers. Soon after, Tom Fitzmaurice quoted his wife as saying, I cry every day when I see the look of pain and despair in my husband's eyes. Judge Chin was appointed district judge in the Southern District of New York in 1994 before being nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Five went on trial in late 2013 and watched DiPascali take the witness stand as the government's star witness. 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. He was confirmed in April 2010 and took senior status in June 2021. So, you know, I've served. [15] PTC and WWE settled out of court and, as part of the settlement agreement, the PTC paid WWF $3.5 million USD and PTC president Bozell issued a public apology. [9] In 1986, Chin left the U.S. Attorney's Office and started a law firm, Campbell, Patrick & Chin, with two colleagues from the U.S. Attorney's Office. US District Judge Denny Chin sentenced Madoff to the maximum possible term. 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. Google. There was yet another home in the south of France, private jets and a yacht. He stole from the poor. NBC was working with the activist group Perverted Justice on the sting, in which officers impersonating underage girls establish online chats with men and try to lure them to a house, where they are met by TV cameras and police. His grandfather had already established himself in America as a waiter, and his father became a chef and his mother worked as a seamstress. Chin said the lawsuit contained sufficient facts to make it plausible that the suicide was foreseeable, that police had a duty to protect Conradt from killing himself, and that the officers and NBC acted with deliberate indifference. . On October 6, 2009, President Barack Obama nominated Chin to the Second Circuit. } Thurgood Marshall U.S. Chin sentenced Kumar to 2 years of probation. He was confirmed in April 2010 and took senior status in June 2021. On the Sunday before sentencing, the judge returned to the roughly 450 e-mails and letters that had come from victims. }, First published on February 26, 2008 / 5:54 PM. When he applied for the judgeship, he was just 39, but there were 10 vacancies in the Southern District of New York for President Clinton to fill. I'm Melissa Block. Judge Denny Chin called Madoffs crimes extraordinarily evil. The series of four-minute Pathways to the Bench vignettes can be used with high school students and youth groups to encourage them to overcome the inevitable obstacles on the way to their dreams. His criminal behavior devastated the lives of his victims, leading to suicides, bankruptcies and home losses. In court, Mr Madoff said that when he started the scheme in the 1990s, he hoped it would only be for a limited time. At the time of his arrest, fake account statements were telling clients they had holdings worth $60bn. Andrew Denney. By contrast, "it's hard to say whether being Asian-American is going to place anyone at a disadvantage," he said. He was soft spoken and an intellectual. They were two struggling kids from Queens. Citing data that showed Mr. Madoff, who was then 71, could expect to live about 13 more years, Mr. Sorkin asked for a term of 12 years just short of an effective life sentence, as he put it suggesting that Mr. Madoff might be allowed a year of freedom before he died. tally fair than Denny Chin." As a federal district judge, Judge Chin presided over a number of high-profile cases. On March 12, Madoff pleaded guilty to securities fraud and other charges, saying he was "deeply sorry and ashamed." The sentencing of Bernard L. Madoff required balancing the law against the public anger his fraud had inspired. Mr. IRWIN CANTOR: I'm a professional loser, yeah. His 8-year-old felt torn and said, "'I love the Knicks, but I love Yao.'" Applause broke out in the New York courtroom when the judge handed down the maximum sentence. "Although the crimes Bernie was convicted of have come to define who he was - he was also a father and a husband. But what the SEC never found out was that behind the scenes, in a separate office kept under lock and key, Madoff was secretly spinning a web of phantom wealth by using cash from new investors to pay returns to old ones. "[6] While a student at Princeton, Chin was a staff writer and later managing editor at The Daily Princetonian. First came Dominic Ambrosino, a former corrections officer, a guy who used to be on the right side of the prison bars, as he said. He also wrote that he had received no letters on Mr. Madoffs behalf: The absence of such support is telling.. I do not agree, Judge Chin wrote about the victims. In his ruling, Chin said the network "placed itself squarely in the middle of a police operation, pushing the police to engage in tactics that were unnecessary and unwise, solely to generate more dramatic footage for a television show.". In a scathing ruling, U.S. District Judge Denny Chin said a jury might conclude the network "crossed the line from responsible journalism to irresponsible and reckless intrusion into law. 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. And they kind of looked at each other and said yes. They agreed that it was probably not the best thing to do, he said. "We never quite got the hang of developing business that was the hard part," he said. Copyright 2023 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. Chin slept with his four siblings in the living room of a one-bedroom apartment, a situation he said was common in his neighborhood. 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. The list of those scammed included actor Kevin Bacon, Hall of Fame baseball player Sandy Koufax and film director Steven Spielberg's charitable foundation, Wunderkinder. Judge Denny Chin, who originally had imposed the sentence of 150 years, denied his request for release, calling his crime "one of the most egregious financial crimes of our time," and one that . "I dug myself deeper into a hole" as the scheme progressed, Madoff said, adding that he would "live with this pain, this torment, for the rest of my life.". An old IBM computer cranked out monthly statements showing steady double-digit returns, even during market downturns. The recovered sum fell far short of the sums Madoff told duped clients he was managing. [14] At the time, the PTC had been campaigning for advertisers to withdraw sponsorship of WWE's flagship program SmackDown because it believed that the program caused the violent deaths of four children. In her lawsuit, Patricia Conradt claims a police officer at the scene of the shooting told a "Dateline" producer: "That'll make good TV. A former law clerk had e-mailed him to say that more than a dozen television trucks were already lined up near the courthouse. 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. From 1994 until his appointment to the Second Circuit, he served as a United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York. He stole from the in between. Rather, they are doing what they are supposed to be doing placing their trust in our system of justice.. At various times, he referred to his monumental fraud as a "problem," "an error of judgment" and "a tragic mistake. "The man who committed this horrible fraud is not the man whom I have known for all these years. When it came Madoff's time to talk, he rose and kept two fists balled on the table as if for ballast. He had an intern quickly research relevant cases; he reviewed them and began writing, adding about 100 words to the draft. Another son, Andrew, died from cancer at age 48. He said he had been a beneficiary of affirmative action, but noted that in many colleges affirmative action may hurt Asian-Americans' chances of admittance since they are often not given the same plus-factor as other minorities. 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. Ruth is still living. As of late 2008, the statements claimed investor accounts totaled $65 billion. 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"A reasonable jury could find that by doing so, NBC created a substantial risk of suicide or other harm, and that it engaged in conduct so outrageous and extreme that no civilized society should tolerate it," Chin said. [17], Chin also presided over the criminal prosecution of Larry Stewart, the handwriting expert who was accused of committing perjury during the trial of Martha Stewart (no relation). Founded in 1819, the University of Virginia School of Law is the second-oldest continuously operating law school in the nation. "It may be disgusting, but it's protected activity," he said. The government argued it had probable cause to search the homes of people who had entered their address, but Chin granted one defendant's motion to suppress. Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff was sentenced Monday to 150 years for his monumental Ponzi scheme. "We will have to sell our home and hope to survive on Social Security alone.". Authorities say that over the years, at least $13 billion was invested with Madoff. Madoff admitted to committing securities fraud via a Ponzi scheme starting in the early 1990s, which involved potentially as much as $65 billion. In the headlines and news accounts that followed, the words extraordinarily evil seemed to be everywhere. Chin was born in 1954 in Kowloon, Hong Kong and came to the U.S. in 1956. He had also received an e-mail that day from Gabriel W. Gorenstein, a magistrate judge who had reached into the wooden wheel that is used to randomly assign cases in the courthouse and selected an envelope that contained Judge Chins name. After several months living under house arrest at his $7 million Manhattan penthouse apartment, he was led off to jail in handcuffs to scattered applause from angry investors in the courtroom. "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. Judge Chin graduated from Princeton University magna cum laude and received his law degree from Fordham Law School. I said, So basically youre splitting the baby? the judge remembered. Outside the courthouse, her husband Ron said they were so fooled by Madoff that they were proud when their son was hired to work for the man who would one day destroy his family's finances. He would include the story in his draft. After the meeting, a lawyer for the family contacted regulators, who alerted federal prosecutors and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. But it was the global recession which effectively prompted Mr Madoff's demise as investors, hit by the downturn, tried to withdraw about $7bn from his funds and he could not find the money to cover it. Bernard Madoff pleads guilty Topics North Carolina "How could somebody do this to us? PESCA: Judge Chin had the last word, saying he believed investor losses to be closer to $60 billion. Madoff was in a bathrobe when two FBI agents arrived at his door unannounced on a December morning. Victims of Mr Madoff's fraud included celebrities and everyday people, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. He began to consider how to articulate the message he wanted to send. He cheated his victims out of their money so he and his wife could live a life of luxury beyond belief.. Two years later, Judge Chins recollections resurrect all the anger, shock and confusion that surrounded Mr. Madoffs crimes, and provide a rare peek at the excruciating pressure faced by a judge who had to balance the law, the publics emotions and his own deeply held beliefs while meting out a sentence that was just and satisfied the courts need to send a message. C.W. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. 5089. To Judge Chin, Mr. Madoff seemed sad, almost as if he were grieving. "I saw what a great job [being a federal judge] was," he said. The order left her with $2.5 million. Judge Chin noted in the interviews that 20 or 25 years would have effectively been a life sentence for Mr. Madoff, and any additional years would have been purely symbolic. U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Denny Chin, a Chinese immigrant who grew up in a Hell's Kitchen tenement, is the subject of a newly released Pathways to the Bench video profile, the eighth in a video series in which federal judges talk about challenges that helped prepare them to serve justice.. Judge Chin, who joined the Second Circuit bench in 2010, recalls how he moved from Hong Kong to New . The order left her with $2.5m. This story, "," originally appeared in The New York Times. 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. Judge Chin then began reading his statement from the. 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