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Boxes and Lines

Bernie Madoff: The Trader, The Fraudster, The Legend (Part 1)

Mar 4, 2025
48:26

Bernie Madoff was a market structure pioneer, a former NASDAQ chairman, and one of the most trusted names on Wall Streetbona fides that allowed him to architect the largest known Ponzi scheme in history under the noses of regulators. In this first episode of our two-part look at Madoff, Ronan and JR sit down with New York Times journalist Diana Henriques, author of The Wizard of Lies, which also inspired the HBO movie starring Robert De Niro. Diana, who was the first journalist to interview him in prison and played herself in the film, discusses Madoff’s early rise in electronic trading, the mechanics of his $65 billion Ponzi scheme, and how he kept finance’s biggest players on the hook for decades.

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