Phil Mickelson’s SEC Mulligan
Tue, 2016-05-24 22:04
News Staff
By G. Romero Wendorf
Most of us over the age of, say, 3 realize that the world works a lot differently for the rich and famous as opposed to those of us among the working rabble. The rich and famous often get a hand slap when they do something wrong, unless you’re a woman like Martha Stewart, while the rest of us go to prison if we commit a relatively serious crime.
For the rich to go to prison, they have to do something seriously out of whack: hello, Bernie Madoff, the former NASDAQ chairman who ran a multi-billion-dollar ponzi scheme and made off with investments worth billions from connected billionaires, millionaires, and wealthy celebrities who never apparently questioned why Bernie could give them double the returns on their investments compared to almost all others.