Marcus Schrenker is surely one of the most memorable villains to emerge in the financial crisis: The "wealth management" advisor is believed to have crashed an airplane to fake his own death.

Bizzy Bone, of Bone-Thugs-n-Harmony, was choked, beaten, and robbed for his jewelry in LA. By an anti-gang outreach worker. [LAT]

Bernie Madoff remains free on bail, in his multimillion-dollar penthouse, despite trying to hide millions in assets. And, you know, stealing $50 billion. Thanks, justice! [NYT]

• Will Bernie Madoff sleep in his bed tonight? Will he sent to jail for violating the terms of his bail? Judge Ronald Ellis will answer the question in the next few hours, but if you're dying to find out Bernie's fate the minute it happens, you can tune into Fox's live feed from outside his apartment building. [Bloomberg, Fox]
• In other Bernie-related news, it turns out that Bernie's sister was a victim of the scheme, too. She lost $3 million that she invested with her brother and is now "desperately" trying to sell her Palm Beach home. [NYP]
• Madoff has yet to apologize to his victims, but the Times reports that Bernie did issue regrets to his neighbors for the "terrible inconvenience" he's caused them in recent weeks. He also thanked them for their support, although it's unclear who exactly these supporters are. [NYT]

Bernie Madoff squandered $3 million of sister Sondra's money, so the 74-year-old must sell her $900,000 Palm Beach home. Maybe she could try the newly-popular local pawn shop.

Lillo Brancato Jr., the former Sopranos actor who was cleared of murder last month in connection with a botched burglary in 2005 that left an off-duty police officer dead, was sentenced to 10 years in prison today for attempted burglary. [NYT]

Sopranos actor Lillo Brancato: ten years in prison. Dang. [NYT]

The Illinois House impeached Governor Rod Blagojevich today, hooray! The lawmakers voted 114-1 to impeach, after denouncing him for an hour or so.

Bernie Madoff's karmic debt is balancing out! Because yes, he ripped off a lot of worthy charities, but now we find out he also ripped off tax-evading Clinton pardonee Marc Rich:

We learned this morning that Nevan Donahue, from MTV's reality tinkle The City, had a warrant out for an old prostitution charge. Now we know all the white trash details! How will Olivia Palermo live this down?

Larry Craig, the U.S. senator whose airport-bathroom gay-sex bust introduced the phrase "wide stance" into Beltway argot, has run out of appeals to withdraw his guilty plea for disorderly conduct.

The New York Times reports video of Bernie and Ruth Madoff "lounging on their yacht, visiting a winery and relaxing in an upscale hotel in San Tropez [sic] in southern France" will air on Fox Business News tonight at 7pm. In totally unremarkable news, it also seems reporters at the Times don't spend much time visiting luxe French resort towns. [NYT/Dealbook]

Prosecutors say that Bernie Madoff had 100 signed checks worth $173 million in his office desk—ready to go to family and friends—when he was arrested on December 11. We're going to go ahead and assume they were from Deluxe's "Tropical Breeze" series, but if you know otherwise, please let us know. [NYDN]

The Feds still want to throw accused Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff in jail for mailing mittens. Oh, and some diamonds and emeralds and other expensive things.

Ha! You know Nevan from The City? (Oh you don't? He's socialite cast member Olivia Palermo's fey cousin.) Well, it seems he has a police record for soliciting a prostitute in Miami.

As Page Six reported this morning, Nevan Donahue, the sexually ambigious regular on The City whose big claim to fame in life is that he's Olivia Palermo's cousin, was arrested for soliciting a prostitute in Palm Beach in 2007. Click on the photo to see his mugshot and booking sheet. And keep in mind that there's still a warrant out for his arrest, so if you spot him out and you feel like taking justice into your own hands and snapping cuffs around his wrists, you can be assured the gratitude of the Palm Beach Police Department. [HuffPo]

Two robbers ripped off Snatch and stole millions in diamonds by disguising themselves as Hasidic Jews. New folk heroes? The next Somali pirates? No, way too derivative, dudes. Recreate Usual Suspects and we'll talk.

Cops are leaking details of their investigation into incoming State Senator Hiram Monserrate's little face-slashing incident.

Movie idea: the daughter of Jewish refugees flees Europe for Wall Street, strikes it rich, gains billionaire mobster clients, but is then forced into hiding by a deal gone wrong. Bonus: it's a true story.

David Fincher may be temperamental about having his films come out just so, but he's got nothing on James Ciallela, who shot a fellow moviegoer for interrupting Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.