Catharsis-free scandal

That’s it? The biggest financial swindle in history wrapped up faster than you can say ‘bezzle’? As hard as it may be for Bernard Madoff’s $65bn worth of victims from Israel to Colombia and Milan to New York’s Upper East Side to accept, the scandal appears to be a case closed. Madoff is expected to plead guilty later this week in a Manhattan court to 11 felony charges, which come with a 150-year prison sentence. Madoff provided the exclamation point to the panic of 2008. The peaceful conclusion ...