Jp: Don’t you find it strange that Bernie Madoff did not go to trial, but, rather, took the full weight (150 year sentence) and went straight to prison?

What do you want to bet that, for almost all of these guys (like Allen Stanford, of Stanford Financial), there won’t be a trial at all?

I think if the US government opens up that particular door, there will be a huge backlash with potentially lethal consequences for a lot of those folks involved in the fiasco.

There were AIG employees afraid to go to work because of the potential for violence. There were death threats left on voice mail and email and people actually out in front of the office.

This is going to get ugly, especially as the situation worsens.