By Jim Stanford on December 18, 2008
Did he stay at Four Seasons and ski with Moe, or steal a bunch of Kemmerer dough? (Photo by Steve DeCrow/AP)
That’s Bernie Madoff, the indicted Wall Street rip-off artist, out for an evening stroll in Manhattan yesterday sporting his Jackson Hole Mountain Resort hat.
Madoff, accused of bamboozling investors out of the small sum of $50 billion, was released on bail and appeared before a mob of cameras. The image of the fraudulent financier in his Jackson Hole cap is plastered all over every media outlet in the country.
A commenter on the Wall Street e-tabloid Dealbreaker noticed the hat and wrote: “WTF? He is wearing a Jackson Hole hat? That ancient old fuck couldn’t ski anything out there – not even Apres Vous. Another wanna be wasp like Guttfreund.”
Resort spokeswoman Anna Olson said there’s “no known relationship” between Madoff and Jackson Hole.
Thanks to JL for the spot.
Posted under Crime, Economy, Ski Resorts
File under: “No such thing as bad PR”
It’s all about “branding,” right?
bernie is my hero,making rich people into poor people,beautiful