[webmaven]

> Why should Bernie Madoff gone to jail then?! if some guy can steal a car then?

Fraud and tax fraud are different crimes, and even if they were the same the number of counts in Madoff's case would be vastly different.

In other words, you're much better off committing tax fraud than running a Ponzi scheme targeting rich people. Plus, I suspect that if Madoff had walked he would have died shortly thereafter in some freak accident or an apparent suicide .