Robert Menendez actually said...

I hope we can, whether working with the Finance Committee or whomever, look at this question of phantom interest.

When your 2005 investigation revealed that Mr. Madoff misled the SEC about the strategy he used for customer accounts, withheld information ...

It seems to me that it might be simple human nature that people would not be as quick to investigate and punish one of their own.

I have no doubt that 2008 will go down in history as one of the darkest years for our system of Federal financial regulation.