I wonder if this is just the beginning of a series of such scandals. Bernard Madoff can't be the only money manager who figured this kind of scam.

I feel for your neighbor. I hope she gets at least some of her money back. Surely the whole 50 billion can't be gone?

I don't invest except my 401K and then I stay with the company my employer has hired to manage the 401K for them. And I thought the SEC would be sure that everything was kosher in all the big funds going on so how they slipped up on Madoff's fund perplexes me. Will anyone from the SEC take accountability for not catching this scam? It would still be going on if Madoff had not confessed to his sons what he was doing.

Annie Kate
Birmingham AL

How did this stay under the radar. Someone other than his
own sons should have been able to detect the Ponzi.

I just don't see how people didn't realize sooner that Madoff was running a huge scam. Did they not keep up with their money? I mean just because someone says that all is going great doesn't mean you believe them and don't keep up with your portfolio. Besides, when something seems too good to be true 99% of the time it is.

Cindy...Ga.

In the fraudulent decimation of America by endless morally bankrupt leaders, executives and politicians, what stands as most alarming is the dearth of stories about people who didn't partake in questionable behavior.

It's as if the media has had a terrible time trying to find one solid citizen; Tom Brokaw eloquently depicted the greatest generation, unfortunately, today's hacks represent the worst.

How is it that people can so blindly invest their money?? It's been reported that these people for 3 years had no idea where their money was. How can that be?? What ever happened to the buyer beware adage? That doesn't just count for shoes and electrical appliances. I mean really.

Oh Andy I miss seeing you on CNN on a regular basis, but I enjoy reading your articles in my magazine. I guess you could say its been the year of the ponzi scam. The first being the biggest one in the history of modern time starting here with the subprime mortgage and the rest and now this guy. All I can say is I would never let anyone not working with a reputable investment firm touch my money. This should have never happened. I dont care how wealthy you are. Having your hard earned money basically stolen from you, the loss is the same regardless of who you are. No matter who you are the loss of money through fraud is the same. Its terrible.

With millions of hard-working Americans losing their homes,jobs, pensions; for some strange reason I don't have much sympathy for those who invested hundreds of thousands of dollars – if not millions – and are looking to get that money back. Some people just want a job to go to and a roof over the head of their family.

This is another example of 'catch me if you can " episode of Wall Street!! Sometimes you wonder how many more of these wizzards are gonna surface in the future with endless ways of creating mechanisms of fraud ,because the Wall Street Laboratories as they should be called, have created these financial monsters , that have the ability to do this.Next step is to bail this guy out , because he needs.... moral support !!