Bernie Madoff got 150 years in prison. That works out to $120,000,000 for each year…or ten million bucks a month.
I have a friend whose car was taken by a thief. The car was worth maybe $5000 and they caught the guy who took it and he got 3-5 years behind bars. If he did the minimum sentence, which he probably did, that's like $139 a month.
Bernie got a helluva bargain. At those prices, I would have stolen more.