Well, the irony here is that if Mr. Madoff had screwed over middle and working class victims, when he got out he would still be welcome at the country/yacht club. Since he screwed over his peers, he's never going to get out and would be a pariah if he did.
For an amoral person the lessons are 'pick your targets' and 'never crap where you eat'.
By comparison, the architect of
Foundation for New Era, a $500 million dollar pyramid scheme in the Philadelphia area that targeted
charities was only given a 12 year sentence and server about 10.
Granted, part of this may be that charities that had made 'profits' pooled their assets which recouped most of the money.
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