Bernie Madoff(?) is requesting that his penthouse apartment and his wife's money be left alone by the federal government regarding recouping any lost $$ from the ponzi scheme.

I say that if he sent ANYONE money during that time frame, then they should be considered accessories after the fact, and any money or item purchased with money supplied by this idiot should be confiscated immediately.
Think of it as an interpretation of the RICOH rules.

Then they should make it so that this clown and anyone that recipient of his "goodwill" never sees that money every again.
If anyone, ANYONE else were involved in some "get rich quick" scheme, and were caught you can bet you a$$ we wouldn't be given "house arrest" in a penthouse.

Maybe if the recipients were driven to poverty, for the rest of their lives, they might develop a conscience.

They should pry the gold from his teeth and take one organ from any set of paired organs in his theiving body. Then lock his shriveled husk up forever. The man is a financial psychopath.

is that what you think of as Harsh treatment for the financial crimes he unleashed on Humanity....

that's way to lenient