90-Year-Old Madoff Client Goes Back to Work
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on February 28th, 2009 5:39 am by HL
90-Year-Old Madoff Client Goes Back to Work
Even though this CBS report seems to want to make a feel-good story out of this one, it’s more the stuff of nightmares, despite 90-year-old Ian Thiermann’s good-natured take on his fate. After being retired for 30 years, Thiermann discovered that he’d lost his entire retirement fund due to Bernie Madoff’s shenanigans, and now Thiermann is working for $10 an hour in a California supermarket.
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