Bernard Madoff’s life will come crashing down this week, when, according to his lawyers, the alleged Ponzi schemer will plead guilty to multiple criminal charges.

Facing 11 charges, including fraud, perjury and money laundering, Madoff will likely spend the rest of his life in jail. In listing the charges, investigators also raised the amount of stolen dollars from $50 billion to $65 billion.

Mr. Madoff may have been in charge of the world’s greatest financial scheme, but investigators are still looking into how far the scam stretched: 

And, in an accusation that extends his crime’s shadow to the edges of the business where his brother and sons worked, prosecutors accused Mr. Madoff of using some of the money he gathered through his Ponzi scheme to support the supposedly legitimate wholesale stock trading operation that made his name on Wall Street.

Specifically, prosecutors said that Mr. Madoff “caused more than $250 million” he collected through his Ponzi scheme from at least 2002 through 2008 “to be directed, through a series of wire transfers, to the operating accounts that funded the operations of these businesses.”

The government also charged that he had money transferred from his firm’s London office “to purchase property and services for the personal use and benefit” of himself, his family members and his associates.

In addition to facing life in prison, prosecutors are asking Madoff to fork over $170 billion, the total amount of money that went through his fingers over the past few decades, but Madoff’s attorneys insist he doesn’t have anywhere close to that much money. We wonder if they’ll go looking for that money wife Ruth Madoff asked to keep. And, more importantly, whether investigators will start looking into her potential involvement.