Hey TheQuin, I'm sorry to get back to it but everything that you wrote intrigued me, and so I had to watch again what I think is the best and most thorough documentary about Madoff, called "Der Milliardenbetrug des Bernie Madoff" (by German TV).

In the first minutes of that documentary you will hear this sentence: "Bernard Madoff galt als Wall-Street-Legende, als Mann von tadellosem Ruf, als angesehener Investor."
Traduced to english: "Bernard Madoff was considered a Wall Street legend, a man of impeccable reputation, a respected investor."

In that documentary, they show that Madoff was supported by the most powerful banks in the world.
You know this documentary was not made by me, it was made by independent swiss, german and french journalists.

I think everybody can see that you have a tendency to bend the truth to fit your story, whatever the story is that your telling.