His wife "in a deal with the law" has forfeited all but about 2.5 million. She will be watched carefully. Poor thing, her hair dresser refused her an appointment and requested she not come back. Seems a few other clients were screwed over in the scam and suspect she knows where the money is.
I feel no pity for madoff. There are people in their 70s and 80s forced to go back to work because he stole all their savings. There are elderly parents now relying exclusively on Social Security when they thought they could live out their days reasonably comfortably. We are not talking about millionaires but working people - some even retired cops. It is obscene that he was allowed to get away with it for decades while the SEC was told over and over that he was running a scam.