July 03, 2009 07:20 am Bernard Madoff got what he deserved. The 71-year-old financial swindler will never see another day as a free man after being sentenced ... to 150 years in federal prison. While a 25-year sentence would have surely accomplished the same result, meting out the maximum sentence was a symbolic nod to the scope of Madoff's investment fraud and the number of lives he ruined. ... But Madoff's sentencing is not the end of things. Investigators need to unearth the entire web of Madoff's fraud, and prosecutors need to charge those who helped perpetuate it. St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times
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