It was BTC-E and you are missing some important information. Btc-e collusion not yet proved, FBI still keep the money, BTC-E remain in business and arrange to r

It was BTC-E and you are missing some important information. Btc-e collusion not yet proved, FBI still keep the money, BTC-E remain in business and arrange to refund users at their own expense. So the analogy would require the government to take Madoffs money while claiming he was defrauding users and Madoff continuing his scheme and returning to them the money the government had taken from him/them.