Bernard Madoff gets 150 years

Michael De Vita, a victim of Bernard L. Madoff‘s Ponzi scheme, speaks to reporters before Madoff’s sentencing outside federal court in Manhattan on Monday, June 29, 2009.  (Seth Wenig / Associated Press)

File photo of Bernard Madoff exiting Manhattan federal court in New York back in March.  (David Karp / Associated Press)

A throng of people, some of whom are Bernard Madoff fraud victims, line up at Federal District Court in Manhattan for the sentencing hearing of Madoff, who was convicted of running a multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme on June 29, 2009.  (Spencer Platt / Getty Images)

Bernard Madoff fraud victims Ronnie Sue and Dominic Ambrosino hold hands while speaking with reporters before entering a sentencing hearing for Madoff.  (Spencer Platt / Getty Images)

Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme victim Cynthia Friedman of Jericho, N.Y., talks to reporters in front of the Manhattan courthouse where Madoff was to be sentenced June 29, 2009.  (Chris Hondros / Getty Images)