[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Actually more than two orders of magnitude smaller than Madoff. log10(50e9/400e6)~2.1.

It’s interesting because it shows that Madoff was far from the only one. There are lots of these scamsters out there, the public should be made aware of it. Madoff was just their king.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Of course, you're right. How embarrassing! I've frequently ranted here about the innumeracy in the MSM -- hoist by my own petard, I guess.