Congo Con Joins Madoff Victims' Chorus ... Sorta

The federal prosecutors collecting testimonials from victims of Bernard Madoff for the judge slated to sentence him don’t appear to have been too discerning, Josh Marshall reports for Talking Points Memo, after a standard-issue “African businessman” spam email made it into the pile. And though the promised $3.5 million would no doubt thrill many bilked investors, “you do sort of wonder what level of vetting was applied to these emails or who some of those people even are,” Marshall writes. (More Bernard Madoff stories.)