That's fair. I guess I don't see being eaten by sharks or otherwise tortured to death as reasonable punishment for theft. Even if it is grand grand grand GRAND larceny.
FWIW, I googled this a bit, and DOJ says ~80% of the invested money has been recovered (like $18B). The real "theft" was the $65B in gains people thought they had but which were not actually there. So you invested $500k, thought you had $2M in the bank, but then suddenly you had $0, and eventually you get $400k back. Plus you paid taxes on the "gains" over the years, and the gvmt isn't giving that back.