Tony,
First of all, like you I'm somewhat amazed that they can't do a better job of tracking that money. I know money is fungible and all that and there's all those off-shore secret accounts, but . . .
Anyway, I've been thinking about another aspect of the Bernie fiasco for a day or two and meant to include in among my random musings. A lot of people were/are concerned about Bernie's 150 year sentence, thinking it is way too much for a guy old enough to live in TV. Well, I think I came up with a fair alternative. First the gov't folks gotta get their rears in gear and find out how much ill-gotten gains his wife and kids ended up with -- and we all know they did. So, say the kids each got about 10% of the loot. Give them each 10% of Bernie's sentence. Give the brother 10% as well, just for the hell of it (almost forgot him). It's not unreasonable to assume that Lady Macbeth Madoff got at least 20%, so give her 20% of the sentence.
Now we got each of the sons and the brother getting 15 years in jail apiece. Mommy goes up for 30 years. And Bernie's sentence is reduced to a reasonable 75 years.
Everybody's happy, but we still can't find the swag.
Just a thought.
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