I looked over the Madoff charity list, and I noticed something peculiar. His favorite type of charity was anyone trying to prevent juvenile criminals from being punished in any way for anything.
It didn’t matter what the crime was, even serious violent felonies. Apparently Madoff has a “thing” against punishing children under any circumstances.
This was so obvious, I wonder if some of those charities were set up just because they knew Madoff would dump money into them. He likely has some serious psychological thing going on about that.
As you suggest, not all charities are benign. Some are for funding terrorists, others for purely monetary gain, and still others for nursery of left-wing nuts.