"The people in Palm Beach, many of those people have been just ripped off by this sleazebag, and they'll never see the kind of money that they've seen." -- Real estate mogul Donald Trump on how some people he knew gave 100 percent of their net worth to Bernard Madoff for his Ponzi scheme.

"The level of devastation, both financial and on a human level, is astounding." -- Robert J. Ivanhoe, a lawyer representing investors in the Bernard L. Madoff Ponzi scheme scandal.