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Unshackled Lew Freeman Continues Rampage of Titanic/Madoff Metaphors

a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Wb7gmBhM3z4/SU-UhWJCe6I/AAAAAAAABHQ/L-wuMlCa4I8/s1600-h/arts_disaster-movies_584.jpg"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Wb7gmBhM3z4/SU-UhWJCe6I/AAAAAAAABHQ/L-wuMlCa4I8/s400/arts_disaster-movies_584.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5282604188528966562" border="0" //abr /In discussing the Madoff scandal, Lew Freeman a href="http://southfloridalawyers.blogspot.com/2008/12/ss-madoff-sinks-wake-lifts-all-boats.html"has left no Titanic reference untouched/a.br /br /Yet despite the close advice of friends and associates, who have pleaded with him to move on from employing the Titanic as the sole reference point when discussing this scandal, Lew has indicated he believesa href="http://www.miamiherald.com/business/story/821651.html" he can still tease out relevant Titanic/Madoff metaphors/a:br /blockquotespan style="font-weight: bold;"''Even though you got off the Titanic, you may not be afloat,''/span said Lewis B. Freeman, who runs a forensic accounting firm in Miami that has been approached by several victims' lawyers for help with the Madoff case./blockquoteSensing that perhaps he may need to freshen it up just a bit, Lew continued:br /blockquote"Well, let me think -- just because you a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindenburg_disaster"bought a ticket on the Hindenburg /adoesn't mean you will arrive safely in New Jersey. Or how about this -- it's not as if it's 1956 and you're a Madoff investor lounging comfortably on a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Andrea_Doria"the Andrea Doria/a. I would say investors right now are very much like that family who bought a house out on a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amityville_Horror"Amityville, Long Island./abr /br /Tell me the truth, are any of these any better?br /br /Oh hail, I'm sticking with what works." /blockquote

Full post as published by South Florida Lawyers on December 22, 2008 (boomark / email).