the final word Behar, Richard creator text biography Biography. True crime stories. Biographies. Biographies. Récits criminels. nyu 2024 First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition. monographic eng

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xxv, 357 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of 46 plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm. "Some $68 billion evaporated during Bernie Madoff's epic confidence game. Two people were driven to suicide in the wake of the Ponzi Scheme's exposure. Others went to prison. But there has never been a satisfying accounting for how Bernie got away with so much, for so long. Until now. Richard Behar's relationship with Madoff began in 2011 with a simple email request from the inmate. By the time Madoff died in 2021, he had sent Behar more than 300 emails and dozens of handwritten letters, participated in some fifty phone conversations, and sat for three in-person jailhouse interviews--a level of access provided to no other reporter. Behar also established relationships with hundreds of regulators, prosecutors, FBI agents, investors, Wall Street experts, ex-employees of Madoff's, family members, school classmates, and others. The result is the final word on the criminal behind history's most enduring fraud--and on those who believed him, covered for him, or locked him up. Behar illuminates not only the fraud's origins--decades earlier than Madoff claimed in his confession--but also the complicity of investors, Wall Street insiders, family members, and some of the largest banks in the US and Europe. Shocking, infuriating, riveting (and at times absurdly funny), Madoff shows us how Bernie ensnared thousands of investors. As Behar's dogged reporting over the last fifteen years makes clear, however, there aren't many innocents left standing by the end of this tale. Just about everyone involved is guilty, at a minimum, of humanity's most consistent weakness: greed"-- Introduction -- Bernie in Butner -- Solved : when the fraud began -- Solved : the four horsemen and the hold-harmless hooey -- The implosion -- Hoarding and shredding -- The final word . . . on the losers -- The favored clients : shtupped! -- Giant shops of horrors : the feeders -- The Ponzi's engine : JP Morgan Chase -- The foreign banks : bottom feeders -- The Madoff Five (Act 1) -- The Madoff Five (Act 2) -- A prosecutorial post-mortem -- Solved : who knew what in the Madoff family -- A prosecutorial post-mortem, part II -- The final word . . . on the SEC -- Solved : Bernie's old new math -- The forever-unsolvable : Bernie's brain. Richard Behar. n-us--- Madoff, Bernard L Madoff, Bernard L. (Bernard Lawrence "Bernie") 1938-2021 Investment advisors Corrupt practices United States Asesores de inversiones Prácticas corruptas Estados Unidos Ponzi schemes United States Swindlers and swindling United States Estafadores Estados Unidos Estafas Estados Unidos Hedge funds United States Fondos de cobertura Estados Unidos Securities fraud United States Fraude de valores Estados Unidos Conseillers en placements Pratiques déloyales États-Unis Ponzi, Plans États-Unis Fonds spéculatifs États-Unis Fraude boursière États-Unis Biography & Memoir Finance Crime & criminology, true crime HV 6692 B419m 2024 364.16/3092 9781476726892 (hardcover) 1476726892 (hardcover) 2024934288 YDX 240313 20250701100317.0 23605377 eng