Madoff ties to Valley

The scope of Bernard Madoff's alleged fraud is detailed in 162 pages of minuscule type: a list of the disgraced money manager's once-trusting customers, including a bevy of the rich, famous and powerful. Daily News.

In between, though, are all the others: the names you've never heard - thousands of mostly ordinary people, until now all but overlooked.

Their voices reveal the true toll of Madoff's scheme, one that cannot be measured in dollars alone.

To do so would overlook the anger, despair and silent shame they share.