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To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (174322)12/29/2008 5:57:54 PM
From: tejekRead Replies (1) | Respond to of 306849
 
Because in a Ponzi scheme, old investors are paid from new investor's principal. So the damages are intentionally asymmetric. Case law has hashed this out, most recently in the Sam Israel/Bayou Investment Fund case.

Thanks. Still it seems unfair if you are an innocent investor in all of this.