Yeah, I've got to agree this is a pretty stupid thread. The whole premise of finance is trust, and Madoff will go straight to the depths of hell right to the bottom of Dante's Inferno next to Judas Iscariot.
Why didn't he? Gee, maybe because he was scamming people the whole time, and had to keep up appearances. His best out would have been claiming to have bought CDO's. But, hey, it's easy to lose money. One day you just overleverage yourself until you have no money left. That much is true.
Crgarcia has started many retarded threads, and he's not even relevant to anything I follow. Mindless posting doesn't get anywhere, especially posts so unsubstantial that they do not reflect even a professional command of market knowledge and finance. It's laughable to say he's the most important.