For the 2009 Halloween holiday the Bernard Madoff Mask has become a popular costume despite the fact that the mask is of a very infamous real life trickster who is noted for his Ponzi Scheme as the former president of the Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities financial advisory firm. The rubber mask effigy hit store shelves all over Manhattan, New York in early October with a "Whack the Ponzi" costume set comes with an orange jail jumpsuit, plastic handcuffs, a vinyl mask and an inflatable over-sized hammer. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2009/10/11/2009-10-11_trickster_bernie_madoff_gets_treatment_for_hween.html

The mask is an effigy of the infamous Ponzi Scheme scammer.