The authoritative record of NPRs programming is the audio record. display: block; Read about our approach to external linking. A graduate of Princeton, Chin couldn't get a paying job after his first year at the Fordham University School of Law, so he interned for a judge in New York's Southern District, then clerked for the same judge following graduation. 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. Although Chin said that by and large he has not experienced discrimination as a judge, there have been some incidents that happened because of his race. Paul B. 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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. } 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 Ordertelevision series. Copyright 2023 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. He said a jury might conclude it was done solely to sensationalize and enhance the entertainment value of the arrest. }, First published on February 26, 2008 / 5:54 PM. Earlier this week, Judge Denny Chin (S.D.N.Y.) He has also presided over two sessions of the Southern District of New York's RISE (Reentry through Intensive Supervision and Employment) Court, a program to help individuals with convictions reenter society after completing their prison terms. 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. Madoff, 82, died at the Federal Medical Center in Butner, North Carolina, the bureau said in a statement. Imposing a 150-year sentence in 2009, judge Denny Chin called Madoff's crimes "extraordinarily evil". In the 1980s Bernard L Madoff Investment Securities occupied three floors of a midtown Manhattan high-rise. The Madoffs also took a severe financial hit: A judge issued a $171 billion forfeiture order in June 2009 stripping Madoff of all his personal property, including real estate, investments, and $80 million in assets his wife, Ruth, had claimed were hers. 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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. .component--type-recirculation .item:nth-child(5) { Madoff has already been ordered to forfeit assets worth more than $170 billion the amount prosecutors say "flowed into the principal account to perpetrate the Ponzi scheme." Madoff investor George Nierenberg thought the reason Madoff spoke to the victims might have been something he said at Madoff's plea hearing several months ago. The mans widow had met with Mr. Madoff, who had put his arm around her and told her not to worry, that her money was safe with him. "I think you can overcome these things that's what I really think." Madoff admitted to committing securities fraud via a Ponzi scheme starting in the early 1990s, which involved potentially as much as $65 billion. Chin spent much of his statement utterly dismissing each argument the Madoff team put forth. dismissed a lawsuit by a Florida man who blamed the Atkins. Chin slept with his four siblings in the living room of a one-bedroom apartment, a situation he said was common in his neighborhood. I do not agree, Judge Chin wrote about the victims. Madoff was sent to do what amounted to a life sentence at Butner Federal Correctional Complex, about 45 miles northwest of Raleigh, North Carolina. "I realised that my arrest and this day would inevitably come.". And there we are. From 1994 until his appointment to the Second Circuit, he served as a United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York. 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. He rules over civil and criminal cases, commercial cases, contract cases, murder cases, narcotics cases, "boiler room" cases and even the lawsuit regarding pictures published in Penthousethat were purportedly of tennis star Anna Kournikova; the real subject of the photos sued the magazine for printing pictures of her sunbathing topless on a public beach in Miami. Other corporate victims were Royal Bank of Scotland and Man Group and Japan's Nomura Holdings. "There's no cure for my type of disease. He cheated his victims out of their money so he and his wife could live a life of luxury beyond belief.. By contrast, "it's hard to say whether being Asian-American is going to place anyone at a disadvantage," he said. The probation department had recommended a 50-year term, while the defense lawyer had sought 12 years behind bars for his client. He directed Klayman to explain the letter and in open court Klayman stated that he had written the letter because Chin was Asian. Copyright 2009 NPR. But it was not just the elite and large firms who were victims of the fraud. 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. That was the number of victims allowed to speak. 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. Judge Chin is the recipient of the Woodrow Wilson Award from Princeton University, the Spirit of Excellence Award from the American Bar Association, the Edward Weinfeld Award from the New York County Lawyers Association, the Lifetime Achievement Award from Judicial Friends, the Abely Award for Leading Women and Children to Safety from Sanctuary for Families, the Medal of Achievement from the Fordham Law Alumni Association, and the J. Edward Lumbard Award from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. His grandfather had already established himself in America as a waiter, and his father became a chef and his mother worked as a seamstress. "It's rare than an institutional client gets handed down to a woman.". Madoff's other son, Andrew, died from cancer at age 48. The students were about 55 percent Asian-American, when the population in New York City is only about 10 percent Asian-American. "We're in a complicated situation. Madoff was born in 1938 in a lower-middle-class Jewish neighborhood in Queens. 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. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. 2008 The Associated Press. Aside from an accountant accused of helping Madoff hide the scheme, no one else has been criminally charged. "We thought he was God. 2021 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. Wiesel admitted that he bought into "a myth that he created around him that everything was so special, so unique, that it had to be secret.". As agents scoured records for evidence of a broader conspiracy and cultivated DiPascali as a cooperator, the scandal turned Madoff into a pariah, evaporated life fortunes, wiped out charities and apparently pushed some investors to die by suicide. C.W. When asked about affirmative action, Chin expressed mixed feelings. "Bernie, up until his death, lived with guilt and remorse for his crimes," his lawyer Brandon Sample said in a statement. Yet symbolism was important, he said, given the enormity of Mr. Madoffs crimes. "I also believe that Mr. Madoff was never truly remorseful, and that he. The convicted swindler stood before the judge and his victims and said, I live in a tormented state knowing the pain and suffering I've created. Founded in 1819, the University of Virginia School of Law is the second-oldest continuously operating law school in the nation. Ruth is still living. Top McCarthy aide, House Oversight chair each met with Ashli Babbitt's mother I've served 11 years already, and, quite frankly, I've suffered through it.". } He called clerking "difficult," but rewarding at the federal court level. 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. Part of the reason life tenure is so important is so that judges will not be unduly influenced by public opinion, he said, although he is careful to consider both sides of an issue in his judgments. Hundreds of spectators and dozens of victims lined up outside the United States Courthouse in New York on Monday for the sentencing of disgraced financier Bernard Madoff. From 1994 until his appointment to the Second Circuit, he served as a United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York. Prosecutors let her keep $2.5m from the the $825m fortune the couple once possessed. "How could somebody do this to us? 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. Flying bug found at Walmart turns out to be rare Jurassic-era insect Rather, they are doing what they are supposed to be doing placing their trust in our system of justice.. (Courtesy photo) Fordham's Center on Asian Americans and the Law, believed to be a first-of-its-kind institution . 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.". 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. Chin was born in 1954 in Kowloon, Hong Kong and came to the U.S. in 1956. This site is maintained by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts on behalf of the Federal Judiciary. Bernard Madoff, right, leaves US . The order left her with $2.5m. Cheers and applause erupted from the gallery as Chin announced the verdict. But no man is.". He insisted that he acted alone, describing a separate wholesale stock-trading firm run by his sons and brother as legitimate. 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. After the war, as an employee of Columbia Records, he helped create the 3313 rpm long-playing record. Amanda Leith, a lawyer for NBC Universal, had no comment on the ruling. 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. A former chairman of the Nasdaq stock market, he attracted a devoted legion of investment clients from Florida retirees to celebrities such as famed film director Steven Spielberg, actor Kevin Bacon and Hall of Fame pitcher Sandy Koufax. Updated on: April 14, 2021 / 7:00 PM Senior Judge Denny Chin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He would include the story in his draft. PESCA: Judge Chin had the last word, saying he believed investor losses to be closer to $60 billion. Bernie was by no means perfect. But unbeknown to his thousands of victims, he was running a Ponzi scheme that wiped out at least $17.5bn in savings. 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. They worked hard, said Thomas Morling, who worked closely with the Madoff brothers in the mid-1980s. 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. He also asks them a hypothetical, noting it is much more important to show balance and reasoning than arguing for a right or wrong answer. Courthouse, 40 Foley Square, New York, NY 10007 | (212) 857-8500. Judge Chin then began reading his statement from the. I went to a very dear friend and asked him to do me a big favor, and he did. He stole from the poor. Attorneys as well, even if the eventual goal is private practice, because it is rewarding work and a great experience, and also gives you "instant credibility" among judges. "[6] While a student at Princeton, Chin was a staff writer and later managing editor at The Daily Princetonian. In a society governed by the rule of law, he wrote, the message had to be sent that Mr. Madoff would get what he deserves, and would be punished according to his moral culpability.. It feels like the nightmare we can't wake from," said Carla Hirshhorn. It was symbolic. Administrative Oversight and Accountability, Director of Workplace Relations Contacts by Circuit, Fact Sheet for Workplace Protections in the Federal Judiciary, Chronological History of Authorized Judgeships - Courts of Appeals, Chronological History of Authorized Judgeships - District Courts. Last year, Mr Madoff requested early release from prison citing health problems, including kidney disease. Judge Chin read his passage on retribution, which, after the length of the sentence itself, appeared to have the greatest impact. in psychology from Princeton University in 1975 after completing a 130-page long senior thesis titled "The Old Ones of Chinatown: A Study of the Elderly Chinese. They had a $7 million Manhattan apartment, an $11 million estate in Palm Beach, Florida, and a $4 million home on the tip of Long Island. The global financial crisis of 2008 prompted the scheme to unravel, leaving thousands of victims bereft of their savings and Madoff as an avatar for the failure of regulators and financial corruption. 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. 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. President Bill Clinton nominated Chin to the district court on March 24, 1994, and Chin was confirmed August 9 of that same year. [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). We did nothing wrong," said Dominic Ambrosino, a retired New York City corrections officer. NYT reporter: Son's suicide gave Madoff sense of contrition, Author: Madoffs kin likely didnt know of scam. He began to consider how to articulate the message he wanted to send. 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