“Bernard Lawrence  " Bernie "  Madoff    is an American scam artist ...... He is …. the admitted operator of a Ponzi scheme that is considered the largest financial fraud in U.S. history. Prosecutors estimated the size of the fraud to be $64.8 billion, based on the amounts in the accounts of Madoff's 4,800 clients as of November 30, 2008” Bernie Madoff scammed America and became a billionaire. When the Reckoning came, his children were not rewarded for being the children of a scam artist, but were held to account for their father’s scam. One child committed suicide; one died early from stress induced cancer, one went to prison, all in all, a sad, Shakespearean tragic ending. But when you scam America, your life, and the lives of your children become a Greek tragedy, worthy of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripedes. American society, in its collective wisdom, has decided that the children of crooks, and scam artists and claim jumpers should not benefit...