A good start but...

[ThorkelGriersen]

I understand that, but they didn't know it was a scam when they got out. They were just being frugal and not taking too big of a chance with their savings.

Actually, nobody know it was a scam except a few, until the story broke. I can see them losing, if they knew what they were doing. But, these people didn't know.

The people who bought the "hot" cars didn't know either. They thought that they were buying new cars from a dealer. The first bit of evidence that law enforcement found was that they were selling hundreds of cars more than GM was shipping them. The cars even had the factory price and equipment sheets on the door windows just as the manufacture places on new cars. They still lost their money and had to give up the cars. They could, of course, sue the dealer, but that is a long line.

In cases like this, there is just no place where the victim can go to be made whole.

 

[DVS]

The people who bought the "hot" cars didn't know either. They thought that they were buying new cars from a dealer. The first bit of evidence that law enforcement found was that they were selling hundreds of cars more than GM was shipping them. The cars even had the factory price and equipment sheets on the door windows just as the manufacture places on new cars. They still lost their money and had to give up the cars. They could, of course, sue the dealer, but that is a long line.

In cases like this, there is just no place where the victim can go to be made whole.

It's just sad.

But, on a lighter note, prosecutors are going after the wife, brother and maybe even the sons of Madoff! Can I get an AaaaaaaaaaaaMen?