I’m even more shocked that anyone with half the sense of Slow Joe would invest their money with him! The guy was, is and will always be a crook with no morals, scruples, ethics, etc.
Maybe they thought they could benefit by being on the same team as a crook. That’s why some people invested with Bernie Madoff too. They assumed he was exploiting insider information and didn’t realize they were the ones being rippied off.