MADOFF MIRROR ON THE WALL…

Who's the next biggest culprit of them all?

Not us, said the Madoff family, at least that's what they would have us believe.

Not I said Sonja Con (Kohn).

Not us, said the Chairmen of the Fed who fostered the public fixation on bubbly returns and pumped the economy full of asset exuberance.

Not us, said the Chairmen of the SEC, whose agency turned a blind eye to blatant Wall Street excess and a deaf ear to a lone whistleblower.

Not me says Mary, the former Queen of FINRA.

Not I, said Uncle Sam, who collected inflated taxes from duped investors, but let the regulatory machine wither into a shriveled old hag.

Not us, said the Congressional whores, who wrote the deregulatory laws.

Not us. said the NASDAQ shareholders who gave Madoff street cred by electing him their Chairman.

Not us, said the Banktas and feeder fund managers who blindly sent their client monies to a common thief without any effort resembling fiduciary prudence or diligence.

Not us, said the certified public accountants once again.

Not us, said the financial media that spent more time pumping than investigating financial crime.

Not us, said the country club idiots who told all their crony homeys that investing with Madoff was the most exclusive club of them all.

Not us, said the charitable fiduciaries that naively allowed their precious endowments to be managed by a scoundrel.

Not us, said the wealthy "sophisticated investors" who allowed themselves to be duped into thinking that absolute returns are the norm.

WB7: A loss of a human life is always a tragedy. Equally tragic, it seems the world has learned little in the past two years.