Thieves calling themselves “The Educators” have returned a statue stolen from disgraced investment guru Bernie Madoff. And they hoped his learned his lesson. The Palm Beach Post reports that the 10,000 dollar copper sculpture turned up Wednesday near the country club Madoff belonged to. A note attached read “Bernie the Swindler, Lesson: Return stolen property to rightful owners. Signed by – The Educators” A Madoff spokesman made it clear: lessoned learned. Madoff reported the sculpture stolen. In fact he just received a check from his insurance company, AIG. The checks amount, 1 billion dollars.