Let’s see, this Ponzi scheme required people to continually be roped into it to pay those already in it,
and the administrator of it robbed all the money out of it to pay for stuff that he wanted to pay for.
The government does exactly this - at gunpoint.
At least Madoff only did it by deception.
The Treasury Dept. could use Madoff as a consultant;he’s
much better at cooking the books!