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.
If Madoff serves 20 years in prison (the likely amount given that he is already 70 years old) and if he were imprisoned in Louisiana instead of New York, taxpayers would save approximately $583,860. Political scientists may argue that prison is a cost society agrees to pay for from the general taxation pot.