C.W. Consistently ranked among the top law schools, Virginia is a world-renowned training ground for distinguished lawyers and public servants, instilling in them a commitment to leadership, integrity and community service. Authorities later said that over the years, at least $13bn was invested with the company, which used an old IBM computer to crank out monthly statements showing steady double-digit returns, even during market downturns. "They're now Madoff schemes. [8][9], Following a 1978 to 1980 clerkship with Judge Henry Werker in the Southern District, Chin worked for the law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell from 1980 to 1982. I mean, serial killers get a death sentence, but thats virtually what he gave me.. Since his decision, one of the other judges has changed her mind and a third judge has suppressed as well. Judge Denny Chin denied Mr Madoff's request, noting many victims were still suffering due to their financial losses. When asked about affirmative action, Chin expressed mixed feelings. [8] He was an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District from 1982 to 1986. I would tell the new citizens about my grandfather. . He worked for law firm Davis Polk after his clerkship, then became an Assistant U.S. Attorney for four years, and later started his own firm with friends. Thurgood Marshall U.S. Judge Chin read his passage on retribution, which, after the length of the sentence itself, appeared to have the greatest impact. The request was denied. The lawyer, Ira Lee Sorkin, listed several reasons, including Mr. Madoffs confessing to his sons, knowing he would be turned in; his full acceptance of responsibility for his crimes; and his efforts to assist in the recovery of lost assets. This story, "," originally appeared in The New York Times. We trusted everything in his hands," Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel, whose foundation lost $15.2 million, said in 2009. About a dozen Madoff employees and associates were charged in the federal case. On the other hand, because he is one of few Asian-American federal judges, "I know that I have to do a good job, because I know that if I screw up, it's not just me," it will be the "Chinese judge" that screwed up. Convicted swindler Bernard Madoff was sentenced Monday to 150 years in prison for stealing billions of dollars from hundreds of investors over decades in one of the largest Ponzi schemes in history. Todd Heisler Judge Chin agreed to an extensive series of. "In nine years I've had two incidents and I think I dealt with them just fine," Chin said. She eventually gave him her own pension, funds, Judge Chin wrote in his notes. Madoff raised his profile by using the expertise to help launch Nasdaq, the first electronic stock exchange, and became so respected that he advised the Securities and Exchange Commission on the system. On October 6, 2009, President Barack Obama nominated Chin to the Second Circuit. On Thursday, Judge Denny Chin who had handed down Mr. Madoff's 150-year sentence more than a decade ago in New York denied the request. Three weeks after Chin ruled on a commercial breach of contract case involving plaintiff's lawyer Larry Klayman, Klayman wrote a letter to Chin asking if he had any connection to John Huang or the Democratic National Committee. This contrasted with Madoff's attorney, Ira Sorkin, who spoke in a halting and, at times, qualified language. Copyright 2023 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. He has taught Asian Americans and the Law at Fordham, Harvard, and Yale Law Schools, and he taught Legal Writing at Fordham for more than thirty years. Ruth is still living. Mr. RON WEINSTEIN: We were taken by surprise, as every other victim. How could this be real? Chin wrote that a reasonable jury could find there was no legitimate law enforcement need for a heavily armed SWAT team to extract a 56-year-old prosecutor from his home when he was not accused of any actual violence and was not believed to have a gun. Madoff's wife, Ruth, is still living. February 26, 2008 / 5:54 PM "I think it's real important to have diversity" at the universities, he said. Mr. GEORGE NIERENBERG: I called him Madoff. 2023 by the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia. He concluded it was not reasonable to permit the government to search the homes and seize the computers of thousands of individuals merely because their e-mail addresses were entered into a web site, where, in addition to gaining access to child pornography, they could engage in text-based activities such as participating in chat rooms and answering surveys. But in truth no securities were ever bought or sold. Pak was convicted by a jury and sentenced by Chin to 5 years in prison.[20]. Ruth is still living. A former law clerk had e-mailed him to say that more than a dozen television trucks were already lined up near the courthouse. But the most forceful number in federal court this morning was nine. Copyright 2009 NPR. 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. In the middle of his trial, Wyatt changed his plea to guilty as part of a plea bargain with the government. Madoff was in a bathrobe when two FBI agents arrived at his door unannounced on a December morning. "They were two struggling kids from Queens. U.S. District Judge Denny Chin called the scope of the fraud "staggering" and gave the 71-year-old financier the maximum sentence allowed, ensuring Madoff would live out his days behind bars. Mr. IRWIN CANTOR: I'm a professional loser, yeah. At various times, he referred to his monumental fraud as a "problem," "an error of judgment" and "a tragic mistake. Good candidates will often lead the question into a conversation. 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.". . He said he struggled to find the right number the just sentence, as he described it. 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. Madoff's case has become symbolic of Wall Street greed and a laissez-faire attitude toward federal oversight. Mr. Sorkin also proposed another option: 15 to 20 years. Madoff's chief financial officer, Frank DiPascali, said in a guilty plea in 2009 that the statements detailing trades were "all fake.". "When I sentenced Mr. Madoff in 2009, it was . From his grandfather, a waiter, and his father, a cook in Hell's Kitchen,. 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. There, with his brother and later two sons, he ran a legitimate business as middlemen between the buyers and sellers of stock. "Is there rampant racism? PESCA: Judge Chin had the last word, saying he believed investor losses to be closer to $60 billion. Although he went through an extensive background check, "my confirmation hearing took about five minutes, maybe three minutes it was that simple.". U.S. District Judge Denny Chin showed no mercy, sentencing Madoff to the maximum 150 years in prison. 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At the time, both were being investigated for alleged illegal fundraising activities. The order left her with $2.5 million. He recalled when the Houston Rockets came to town, along with the team's new star, Yao Ming, his younger children were excited about going to the game. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1971. 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. "He'd been staring out the window the all day," DiPascali testified. So, you know, I've served. Outside the court, other victims assemble. The scandal also exacted a personal toll on the family: One of his sons, Mark, killed himself on the second anniversary of his father's arrest in 2010. Madoff's other son, Andrew, died from cancer at age 48. Judge Denny Chin spoke informally to students at an event sponsored by APALSA April 1. Most judges will tell you that sentencing is the most difficult thing we do, he said. The probation department had recommended a 50-year term, while the defense lawyer had sought 12 years behind bars for his client. Denny Chin is a United States Circuit Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. As a federal judge in the Southern District of New York, Judge Denny Chin sees some of the most cutting-edge cases in the country, so much so that three of his cases were used as plots for the popular Law and Order television series.But Chin's position is unique for another reason as well he was the first Asian-American appointed to a federal district court judgeship outside the 9th . Victims of Mr Madoff's fraud included celebrities and everyday people, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. 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We're minorities in some ways, we've done well in some ways," he said, adding that it's still important to be involved in the Asian-American community, a goal Chin tries to honor by accepting as many invitations to events as possible. The firm was investigated eight times by the US Securities and Exchange Commission because it made exceptional returns. Paul B. Stephan 77 Weighs In, A Year of War: Three Experts Weigh In on the Ukraine Invasion So Far, Common Law Explores Why Once-Contentious Natural Gas Pipelines Are Now Rubber-Stamped, Book by Danielle Citron Traces History of Privacy Law, Reforms for Today, How Could Social Cost of Carbon Affect Climate Policy? The purpose of this site is to provide information from and about the Judicial Branch of the U.S. Government. [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. "The man who committed this horrible fraud is not the man whom I have known for all these years. US District Judge Denny Chin showed no mercy, sentencing Madoff to the maximum 150 years in prison. MIKE PESCA: Thirteen billion dollars - that is the most conservative estimate of the amount of money Bernard Madoff stole. An $11 million estate in Palm Beach, Fla., a $4 million home in Montauk and a $2.2 million boat will be put on the market as well. Bernie Madoff was born in 1938 in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in the New York borough of Queens. Chin spoke informally to students in a discussion organized by the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association (APALSA) April 1 at the Law School. display: none; As of late 2008, the statements claimed investor accounts totaled $65 billion. In the 1980s, Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities occupied three floors of a midtown Manhattan high-rise. Hing) and Lily Chin (ne Yee).His father earned the right to bring a Chinese bride into the United States through his service in World War II.After Lily suffered a miscarriage in 1949 and was unable to have children, the couple adopted Vincent from a . 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. Both of Madoff's sons have died, Andrew from cancer at age 48 and Mark from suicide at age 46 in 2010. Advertising. By contrast, "it's hard to say whether being Asian-American is going to place anyone at a disadvantage," he said. In her lawsuit, Patricia Conradt claims a police officer at the scene of the shooting told a "Dateline" producer: "That'll make good TV. This site is maintained by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts on behalf of the Federal Judiciary. On March 23, 2011, Chin rejected Google's plan to digitize every book published, saying the plan violated copyright laws. I'm Melissa Block. "Charles Ponzi is now a footnote," said Anthony Sabino, a defense lawyer specializing in white collar criminal defense. [12] Chin assumed senior status on June 1, 2021. U.S. District Judge Denny Chin said, "Here, the message must be sent that Mr. Madoff's crimes were extraordinarily evil and that this kind of irresponsible manipulation of the system is not. Ruth is still living. He joined the court in 2010 after an appointment by President Barack Obama (D). Im surprised Chin didnt suggest stoning in the public square, he added. [16], In Fox v. Franken, Chin denied Fox News Channel (who alleged a trademark violation) an injunction against Al Franken's Book Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right. I went to a very dear friend and asked him to do me a big favor, and he did. Madoff's other son, Andrew, died from cancer at age 48. 5089. Thanks (I guess) for spinning the wheel in my favor! Judge Chin wrote back. To learn more, visit the following links: Related Topics:Judges & Judgeships, Public Education. I would literally take his naturalization petition, which I have framed in my chambers, and hold it up to the citizens.". U.S. District Judge Denny Chin called the scope of the fraud "staggering" and gave the 71-year-old financier the maximum sentence allowed, ensuring Madoff would live out his days behind bars. Aside from an accountant accused of helping Madoff hide the scheme, no one else has been criminally charged. The scam involved an estimated $65bn, a figure that included gains Mr Madoff's clients believed they had made due to fake account statements. His grandfather and father both worked in Chinese restaurants in New York City, while his mother worked as a seamstress in Chinatown's garment district. / AP. 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 . We thought he was God; we trusted everything in his hands, Elie Wiesel, the late Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate, said in the same year. There was also Carla Hirshhorn, who said she was thankful that her father died before he realized that his wife's financial security was ruined. Bernard Madoff exits federal court March 10, 2009, in New York City. Copyright 2023 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. Then Madoff turned and faced the victims and said, I know this will not help, I am sorry. Chin, a United States Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit, shared that as a first-generation Chinese American and first in his family to attend college, he arrived at Princeton 48 years ago alone on a bus he had taken from the Port Authority in New York City carrying two suitcases. His family moved to the United States in 1956 from Hong Kong under the Refugee Relief Act when he was just 2 years old. Madoff admitted to committing securities fraud via a Ponzi scheme starting in the early 1990s, which involved potentially as much as $65 billion. 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. The victims who came forward testified that they had suffered financial ruin because of Madoff's fraud. Please enter valid email address to continue. NYT reporter: Son's suicide gave Madoff sense of contrition, Author: Madoffs kin likely didnt know of scam. He is now a United States circuit judge for the Second Circuit. President Bill Clinton nominated Chin to the district court on March 24, 1994, and Chin was confirmed August 9 of that same year. A Class of 1975 graduate, Chin was the first Asian American appointed as a United States District Judge outside of California and Hawaii. Judge Denny Chin called Madoffs crimes extraordinarily evil. They were two struggling kids from Queens. Madoff, 82, died at the Federal Medical Center in Butner, North Carolina, the bureau said in a statement. } 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. Afterward, Ruth Madoff often a target of victims' scorn since her husband's arrest broke her silence that same day by issuing a statement claiming that she, too, had been misled by her high school sweetheart. The judge called Madoff's deeds "extraordinarily evil," and said he needed to send a symbolic message to those who might try to perpetuate a comparable fraud. [8][9], President Bill Clinton nominated Chin to the Southern District bench on March 24, 1994, to a new seat created by 104 Stat. Founded in 1819, the University of Virginia School of Law is the second-oldest continuously operating law school in the nation. "The law naturally appealed to me, in part because of the challenges we faced growing up," Judge Chin recalls in the video. "It may be disgusting, but it's protected activity," he said. After the meeting, a lawyer for the family contacted regulators, who alerted federal prosecutors and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. But no man is.". "How could somebody do this to us? When Klayman appealed, the 2nd Circuit affirmed Chin's sanctions. Although he showed no emotion during their testimony, he did offer an apology to family and victims. As Judge Denny Chin noted, the Madoff take is quite literally off the charts. The New York Times also interviewed Mr. Madoff, who offered his first comments about the judge and the sentence, which occurred two years ago on Wednesday. Mr. Madoff rose and offered a lengthy apology, saying he felt horrible guilt. He turned to face the victims, and apologized again. While he said stereotypes about Asian-Americans still exist and sometimes rise to the surface, women, for example, may face more challenges in battling discrimination. Judge Denny Chin, who now sits on the 2nd U.S. The benefits of giving him hope were far outweighed by all of the other considerations.. The company became one of the largest market-makers - matching buyers and sellers of stocks - and Mr Madoff served as chairman of the Nasdaq stock exchange. He stole from the in between. Early life. Mr. CANTOR: I wasn't doing as well as I could've been (unintelligible). Because federal prisoners cannot be released before at least 85 percent of their sentences are served, it seems certain that Madoff will spend the rest of his life in confinement. Klayman explained that he and his client were concerned that Chin had ruled against them because Klayman had engaged in activities that some had portrayed as being anti-Asian. He encouraged students at the discussion to be Assistant U.S. At the time of Madoff's arrest, fake account statements were telling clients they had holdings worth $60 billion. At the time of his arrest, fake account statements were telling clients they had holdings worth $60bn. Its a fair argument that you want to give someone some possibility of seeing the light of day, the judge said in an interview, so that they have some hope, and something to live for., And, he added, that was one of the struggles in Madoff., Judge Chin said he quickly rejected the idea of a 12-year sentence for Mr. Madoff, but pondered whether 20 to 25 years might be acceptable. Judge Chin ran with that idea. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. "The Michigan case is a tough case because of the way it's done with the numbers.". Chin's path to his judgeship offers a compelling parable of an immigrant's success. Money launderers 'prey on generation Covid', Human error to blame for train crash - Greek PM, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. Judge Chin graduated from Princeton University magna cum laude and received his law degree from Fordham Law School. You would've never saw it coming. Now, all the money is gone, the judge said. At that point, the judge said, symbolism carried more weight.. Circuit Court of Appeals, noted the continuing suffering of Madoff's thousands of victims who lost $17.5 billion when a decades-long scheme that . v. As well as Wiesel, investors in Madoffs company included the actors Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick and John Malkovich, and the Hollywood director Steven Spielberg. In the end, that fraud brought fresh meaning to "Ponzi scheme," named after Charles Ponzi, who was convicted of mail fraud after bilking thousands of people out of a mere $10 million between 1919 and 1920. That summer he mapped out his career and followed it almost to the letter. In fact, today, when he did turn around and acknowledged the victims, I felt as if there was a satisfaction that I had actually penetrated. He also responded to the assertion in Mr. Sorkins letter that the unified tone of the victims statements suggested a desire for a type of mob vengeance that would seemingly negate the judges role. As Michael Patrick noted when he introduced Judge Chin at the luncheon at which he received New York County Lawyers Association's Edward Weinfeld Award: "Denny presided over both high profile and low pro-file cases. He was soft spoken and an intellectual. The whole goddamn thing is a fraud.'". 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. And Madoff's 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 brother's misdeeds. The West Coast has a large number of experienced Asian-American litigators, and the East Coast is quickly catching up. [21], He was assigned the Google Book Search Settlement Agreement case on January 8, 2009, after the death of the previous supervising judge. But as he finished for the night, he said, he felt vaguely unsatisfied with the draft, which he saved on his computer at 9:29 p.m. I was still struggling with the reasoning, he recalled. "It is probably the most important trial court in the country, given its location in New York City," Chin said. [1] [2] Prior to his appointment, Chin served as a judge on the United States District Court for the Southern . Of the more than $17bn in cash losses, more than $14bn has been recovered. At Madoff's sentencing in June 2009, wrathful former clients stood to demand the maximum punishment. Chin spent much of his statement utterly dismissing each argument the Madoff team put forth. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Law. "It was clear the only reason he asked me these questions was because I'm Asian-American," Chin said. I said to my interns, What do you think? he recalled. "We never quite got the hang of developing business that was the hard part," he said. Garland testifies before Senate panel amid ongoing special counsel probes, Colon cancer rates rising in younger age group, study finds, Firefighter dies battling blaze in downtown Buffalo, mayor says, 20,000 people may have been exposed to measles at Asbury University revival, Prosecution wraps its case at Alex Murdaugh murder trial, Top McCarthy aide, House Oversight chair each met with Ashli Babbitt's mother, What to know about Shigella bacteria as drug-resistant strain spreads, Ex-Georgia star Jalen Carter was racing in deadly crash, arrest warrants allege, Fiery train crash in Greece kills dozens, many of them students, Flying bug found at Walmart turns out to be rare Jurassic-era insect, Pence won't commit to supporting Trump if he's the nominee. A $105 million lawsuit brought by a woman who claims a sex sting by "Dateline NBC: To Catch A Predator" drove her brother to kill himself can go to trial, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images After spending several months under house arrest at his $7m penthouse apartment, he was led off to jail in handcuffs, to scattered applause from angry investors in the courtroom. Tom Fitzmaurice accused Madoff of cheating his victims "so he and his wife, Ruth, could live a life of luxury beyond belief.". But unbeknown to his thousands of victims, he was running a Ponzi scheme that wiped out at least $17.5bn in savings. Bernie Madoff leaves federal court in 2009. Madoff's other son, Andrew, died from cancer at age 48. Top McCarthy aide, House Oversight chair each met with Ashli Babbitt's mother "It was a very vigorous job process because once you have the job you have it for life," he added. His service as a district court judge was terminated on April 26, 2010, when he was elevated to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. [19], Chin presided over the criminal trial of Pak Dong-seon in connection with Pak's alleged involvement in the scandal surrounding the United Nations Oil-for-Food Program. Covering the final, emotional hearing in Federal Judge Denny Chin's courtroom in downtown Manhattan in March 2009, I sat two rows behind Bernie--later sentenced to 150 years in prison--when. [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). U.S. District Judge Denny Chin sentenced Madoff to the maximum possible term. 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. Totally a nice guy, understated, unassuming, fell for it lock, stock and barrel. In a meeting with his sons, he confided that his business was "all just one big lie.". Chin was born in 1954 in Kowloon, Hong Kong and came to the U.S. in 1956. 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. But Chin's position is unique for another reason as well he was the first Asian-American appointed to a federal district court judgeship outside the 9th Circuit, and is now just one of six Asian-American Article III judges today. Judge Chin, who joined the Second Circuit bench in 2010, recalls how he moved from Hong Kong to New York City at the age of 2. Mr Madoff is survived by his wife, Ruth Madoff, who maintained she was unaware of the scheme and was never charged. 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