Bob Imbelli must be traveling so I post in his absence Joe Nocera’s homily this A.M.”Madoff Had Accomplices: His Victims “http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/14/business/14nocera.html?_r=1&ref=businessWait till you get to the lady who is suing the SEC for Madoff’s sins! function getSharePasskey() { return \’ex=1394769600&en=727d3f6c02a1d04e&ei=5124\’;} function getShareURL() { return encodeURIComponent(\’http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/14/business/14nocera.html\’); } function getShareHeadline() { return encodeURIComponent(\’Madoff Had Accomplices: His Victims\’); } function getShareDescription() { return encodeURIComponent(\’Only the willfully ignorant could have seen Bernard L. Madoffs fund as a good investment.\’); } function getShareKeywords() { return encodeURIComponent(\’Ponzi Schemes,Frauds and Swindling,Bernard L Madoff\’); } function getShareSection() { return encodeURIComponent(\’business\’); } function getShareSectionDisplay() { return encodeURIComponent(\’Talking Business\’); } function getShareSubSection() { return encodeURIComponent(\’\’); } function getShareByline() { return encodeURIComponent(\’By JOE NOCERA\’); } function getSharePubdate() { return encodeURIComponent(\’March 14, 2009\’); }

Margaret O’Brien Steinfels is a former editor of Commonweal. 

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