1 Gout can also affect the joints of the feet, ankles, knees, wrists, fingers, and elbows. 2  Symptoms may occur after an illness or surgery.  Gout may first appear as nodules (tophi) on the hands, elbows, or ears. You may not have any of the classic symptoms of a gout attack.
June 4, 2011 - Final auction of personal property belonging to Madoff nets $500,000. To date, the total recovery from the Madoffs has been approximately $24 million in property sales and $80 million in cash assets.
It means that $11 billion of the nearly $20 billion Madoff took from investors will be returned, a tidy sum that attorneys hope can salve some of the wounds caused by the biggest Ponzi scheme in history. Not even close, say some victims. No matter how much is recovered, they say their lives can never be fully repaired.