In December 2008, amidst a world gripped by financial crisis, Bernard Madoff, a respected fund manager, and former chairman of Nasdaq, was arrested by the Fbi for reportedly bilking thousands of trusting investors out of $50 billion. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

With his arrest on Dec. 11, 2008, the world first learned that Wall Street trader and former NASDAQ chairman Bernard Madoff was allegedly running the largest Ponzi scheme in history, a $50 billion scam constructed over decades. Husband and wife writing team the Strobers (Billy Graham, The Nixon Presidency) set out to discover "what sort of person could have coldly stolen from those who had entrusted him... in many instances, with their life savings?" Born in 1938, Madoff was an unmemorable student who, in his mid-twenties, got into investing with $5000. His rags-to-riches story helped him become one of the most trusted men in the financial world, delivering fantastic returns to clients like Kevin Bacon, Stephen Spielberg, the Fairfield Fund, a wide range of Jewish philanthropies, and countless other individual investors. Put together in less than three months, this early account depends largely on media and internet stories, supplemented by 25 interviews with those who knew Madoff. Though the Strobers raise many questions that can't yet be answered (how Madoff evaded regulators, whether he had confederates, etc.), their study of a charming alleged con man is compelling, can't-make-this-stuff-up reading. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From: Reed Elsevier Inc. Copyright Reed Business Information

Deborah and Gerald Strober are the authors of oral histories of the Kennedy, Nixon, and Reagan presidencies and of oral biographies of Queen Elizabeth II, the Dalai Lama, Billy Graham, and Rudy Giuliani. Their latest book, Israel at Sixty, was published in February 2008. The Strobers live in New York and in Herzliya-by-the-Sea, Israel. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

Foreword	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
Part 1 December II, 2008
Chapter 1 The Confession and Arrest of Bernard Madoff	3
Chapter 2 The Victims of the Scandal That Could Wipe Out a Generation of Jewish Wealth	13
Chapter 3 The Jewish Community Is Not the Only Victim	49
Part 2 The Madoff Family
Chapter 4 The Man Behind the Shameless Violation of the Commandment "Thou Shalt Not Steal"	63
Chapter 5 What Do the Wife, the Sons, and the Brother Know?	91
Part 3 Absorbing the Shock and Dealing with the Consequences
Chapter 6 The Profound Sense of Loss	103
Chapter 7 The Anti-Semitic Vox Populi Speaks	113
Part 4 The Shakeout
Chapter 8 Where Do We Go from Here?	119
Chapter 9 And the News Keeps Rolling In	129
Chapter 10 What Punishment Could Possibly Fit the Crime?	165
Afterword	171
Appendices
Appendix A BMIS Mission Statement	181
Appendix B Markopolos Letter to the Sec, November 7, 2005	191
Appendix C SEC Filing, December 12, 2008	211
Appendix D SEC Filing, December 15, 2008	233
Appendix E SEC Filing, December 18, 2008	241
Appendix F Lawsuit Filed by Irwin Kellner, December 12, 2008	253
Appendix G Decision to Deny Government's Motion to Revoke Madoff's Bail, January 12, 2009	263
Appendix H Wall Street Journal List of Major Victims, Updated as of January 5, 2009	287
Appendix I List of Authors' Interviewees	293

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