Madoff Victims Speak Out

So many people were financial (and emotionally) destroyed by this man. A very sad story.-Lou

Throw the book at him -- and then some.

More than 110 victims of Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme have sent e-mails -- in turns scathing and heart-wrenching -- to a Manhattan federal judge asking him to slap the scammer with a maximum sentence of 150 years in jail.

The screeds are directed not only at the con man -- described as a "bastard" and a "monster" -- but at his wife, Ruth, and others who profited from his crimes.

The e-mails were released by federal prosecutors yesterday.

Stephanie Halio wrote that it "hurt so much to see [Madoff] enjoying his penthouse with his servants and his high lifestyle, while we, his victims, are suffering so much because of him.
"And it hurts terribly now to see his wife, his sons, his brother, sister-in-law and niece walking around free and spending money that was stolen from their victims.

"It's like people in the concentration camps during WWII watching the Nazis enjoying themselves using the property, money and other possessions that they had stolen."
Emma De Vita, 81, blasted Madoff, 71, as a "psychopathic, lying egomaniac."

"He has condemned his investors to a life of hell," wrote the widow from Chalfont, Pa.
Madoff's lawyer, Ira Lee Sorkin, said he had read the letters but declined to comment.
Former Fort Lee, NJ, Mayor Burt Ross, who lost $5 million, is among eight victims who want to confront Madoff at his June 29 sentencing. Likening him to Judas, Ross said his ex-financial adviser should suffer in "the lowest depths of hell."

Miriam Siegman wrote that she wanted to face Madoff on behalf of the "forgotten" victims of his $65 billion scam.

"We have been left not only destitute, but with little prospect of meaningful employment . . . We are isolated and face a future that is bleak and [have] no way of coping with the oncoming frailties of old age."