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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (5496)1/24/2009 12:13:26 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 103300
 
" there are laws against ponzi schemes, but that didn't stop madoff..."

Right, it didn't (he got away with it for years).

But prosecution might send a useful message to others who'd be considering frauds... (and if any of the many tips about Madoff to the authorities over the past decade or so had ever been properly investigated, even Madoff might have been caught in time to spare many of his future victims their pain and losses.)