I don't know what this never-previously disclosed information in the chart tells us of importance about Madoff's scam, except perhaps that it reinforces a point that is prevalent throughout the Madoff case, is very important, and is almost never remarked. It could well by my own ignorance, but I don't ever remember another major crime as to which so little underlying information has been publicly disclosed and was publicly known nearly two years after the crime and over a year after the major culprit went to jail. The Trustee, SIPC, and the U.S. Attorney are keeping things secret as much as they can, sometimes claiming secrecy is necessary for their success, a bovine defecation claim that government and quasi government bodies often make, usually falsely. But victims are being really hurt by this common bovine defecation because they do not have access to information they need to further their efforts to recover lost funds -- as shown by the usefulness to victims of other information discussed here that was revealed only in SIPC's (sometimes hide-the-ball) answers of September 7, 2010. I have written many times in blogs, books and elsewhere that secrecy (and associated falsity) is the most serious problem human beings face, since people are usually able to figure out what to do when they know the facts. It is no different here.
[1] Thus, Lifland instantly approved Picard's staggeringly huge requests for fees and expenses. Fees are now up to somewhere around 88 or 90 million dollars as of four months ago (as of May 31, 2010).
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