Ron Stein, who heads an advocacy group that opposes Mr. Picard’s formula, is placing hope in Congress. Last February, Representative Scott Garrett, Republican of New Jersey, introduced a bill that would require a trustee in a brokerage-firm bankruptcy to accept claims from innocent investors based on their final account statements, not on the net cash they lost. That bill would also bar a trustee from suing to recover fictional profits from those investors even if the brokerage firm’s bankruptcy was a result of a Ponzi scheme, where the “profits” were actually the cash the con artist stole from someone else. Read New York Times report here.