You're probably Bernie Madoff'd out by now, but in case you've still got some interest, there is an absolutely mammoth piece in Fortune that will take you the whole weekend to read. Anyway, here's the part that jumped out at me:

Madoff took another step. He decreed that e-mails would no longer be stored electronically. First he decided that each of the firm's e-mails would be printed and then stored in boxes, but he was persuaded by others that such a plan was impractical. In the end, Madoff ordered that old e-mails be transferred to microfiche, a cumbersome process that costs much more than archiving the records digitally. Why would Madoff want to increase his archiving costs? Perhaps it had to do with the fact that microfiche is orders of magnitude more difficult to search than electronic records.

You know, it used to be that when your boss issued some erratic, nonsensical declaration resulting in massive inefficiency you could simply console yourself with the fact that he did it because he was an irrational dickhead. Now you've got to worry that he might be running a giant con game too? Life's just hard.