Madoff .... what a patsy
Bernie Madoff has become the scapegoat of the century.
The public seems happy that one villain is behind bars, but frankly, Madoff's only in jail today because his con was too small. Wall Street has shown how the large con is more effective and how nobody goes to jail.
Lets face it. Madoff was nothing more than a rich jew who stole money from other rich jews. Wall Street's con job, by comparison, was much, much more. Instead of a ponzi scheme, Wall St sold ponzi "insurance", and it turned out to be a much bigger, costlier, systemic problem.
Bernie Madoff is the equivalent to a street dealer of illegal drugs, and Wall Street is the equivalent to an illegal drug cartel. As it stands now, the street dealer is in jail, and the cartel members are walking free.
Madoff needs to be let out of jail simply on the premise that the street dealer's crime is too small to take up jail space when they need jail space for the cartel members.