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Collapsed. >> desperate investors and their lawyers scrambled to madoff's east side offices friday looking for their money. they were turned away in the lobby. >> there has never been a ponzi scheme on the scale of madoff ever. we're talking thousands of people who thought that they had millions of dollars socked away for retirement, suddenly found out it was gone. >> rose and jack lass say they invested every penny of their savings with madoff. >> we started to sell our furniture, some of our things that we value, so that we should have some money immediately. >> then there's 91-year-old ian ...