The Rumored Chase-Madoff Settlement Is Another Bad Joke - Matt Taibbi

``it's hard to not notice the fact that crude Ponzi schemers like Madoff (150 years) and Allen Stanford (110 years) drew enormous penalties -- essentially life terms for both -- while no one from any major firm has drawn any penalty at all for abetting those frauds... most importantly, Madoff and Stanford were simple scam artists who could have come from any generation. There was nothing systemic about their crimes. It was possible to throw them in jail without exposing widespread corruption in our financial system.''