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Bernard Lawrence Madoff ( / ˈmeɪdɔːf / MAY-dawf; [ 2] April 29, 1938 – April 14, 2021) was an American financial criminal and financier who was the admitted mastermind of the largest known Ponzi scheme in history, worth an estimated $65 billion. [ 3][ 4] He was at one time chairman of the Nasdaq stock exchange. [ 5]
Jun 23, 2024 · Bernie Madoff: Bernard Lawrence "Bernie" Madoff is an American financier who executed the largest Ponzi scheme in history, defrauding thousands of investors of tens of billions of dollars over the ...
Apr 14, 2021 · Bernie Madoff, a Wall Street financier disgraced after he admitted to one of the biggest frauds in US financial history, has died in prison at age 82. His death was announced by the Bureau of ...
Bernie Madoff was an American hedge-fund investment manager and former chairman of the NASDAQ stock market. He was best known for operating history’s largest Ponzi scheme. In 2009 he pled guilty to various charges and was sentenced to 150 years in prison. Learn more about his life and crimes.
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Apr 14, 2021 · EPA. Bernie Madoff, a Wall Street financier disgraced after he admitted to one of the biggest frauds in US financial history, has died in prison at age 82. His death was announced by the Bureau of ...
Apr 14, 2021 · Hiroko Masuike/Getty Images. Bernard L. Madoff, the onetime senior statesman of Wall Street who in 2008 became the human face of an era of financial misdeeds and missteps for running the largest ...
Apr 2, 2014 · Bernie Madoff was a former stockbroker who ran his multibillion-dollar firm as a grand-scale Ponzi scheme. Updated: Apr 14, 2021 10:12 AM EDT Photo: TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images // Getty ...
