Liars and Lire

This, come si dice, blaghe has rumbled back to life, in light of some recent developments in the news here. If this and/or previous postings scoot your Vespa, let me know, maybe there will be more.

"I was introduced to Bernard Madoff 21 years ago at a business meeting. ... I now view that day as perhaps the unluckiest day of my life. ... This beast who I call Madoff. He walks among us. He dresses like us ... but underneath the facade is a true beast. ... He is an equal opportunity destroyer."

"Life has been a living hell. It feels like the nightmare we can't wake from."

"The man sitting in this courtroom robbed me. ... He discarded me like road kill. ... Forgiveness for now will have to come from someone other than me."

And it was ever thus, for:

"Men will more readily forget the death of their fathers, than the loss of their property."
~Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince