Reply #5: That's a good point. Probably not a point Madoff's attorneys will be

[truedelphi]

Too interested in presenting, but still a good point.

And of course, the other side of these thing is that Money not only talks, Money walks. I knew of a guy in the SF Bay area, he swindled people out of some 52 million dollars, but a judge made him pay a fine of only $ 158,000.

Which sort of begs the question, how much was the judge's cut? (The crook said at the time of his trial that he had spent all the millions, with not a penny left to show for it!)