Dreier Heads Back to Home Sweet Guarded Home

2009_02_dreierhl.jpg Marc Dreier, the attorney who once had a firm of hundreds and now stands accused of a $380 million fraud, was allowed to go home on $10 million bail. He will be "forced" to stay in his, Bloomberg News notes, "luxury East-Side Manhattan apartment, watched by armed guards around the clock and subject to electronic monitoring and other precautions to ensure he doesn’t flee." One interesting detail reported by the Daily News: "Manhattan Federal Judge Jed Rakoff clarified the conditions for Dreier by emphasizing that his Feb. 8 order doesn't prohibit 'lethal force' to subdue a fleeing Dreier." Which means the guards, that Dreier must pay for, can use their guns to shoot at him if he tries to escape!

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Well this is one step better than Madoff, but why can't they just put the f*ckers in jail where they belong? I'm sure most inmates in prisons and jails all across the country would just as soon be confined in their own homes, but that's not the way it works for anyone but these rich a*sholes.

hey that looks like charlie sheen in about 10 years. har har har.

I was thinking the same thing. Sheen can play this guy a movie.

If Madoff's guards had the authority to use lethal force, I'd bet that we'd all be a little happier. It's really unfortunate that if I go rob a bodega for $30 right now, I'd get sent to Rikers. Theives need to set loftier goals for themselves so they stay out of jail.

Makes me want to throw up. Absolutely disgusting how we have two sets of laws in this country.

might aswell make the UES a luxury country club/prison for wealthy scumbags.

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