"I hope he fries in hell"

That's what one professor after discovering that his sister's life savings were lost in the Madoff Ponzi scheme.

But that's just part of this wrenching autobiographical account of how Madoff hurt the family of a prominent financial journalist whose wife lost her foundation job when the charity lost its endowment.

We'll no doubt be studying the Madoff scandal for years to come. It's like the description of the Ponzi wine pictured above: "The finish is long."

[Madoff story via tech journo extraordinaire Angela Gunn. And Ponzi wine is no Ponzi scheme--it's a leading Oregon vineyard active in important nonprofits & charity, and its wines are quite good!]