Search results
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]
Dec 20, 2023 · Learn about Bernie Madoff, the American financier who ran the largest Ponzi scheme in history, defrauding thousands of investors of tens of billions of dollars. Find out how he did it, who he was, and how he died in prison.
Apr 14, 2021 · 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 and possibly most...
- Diana B. Henriques
People also ask
Who is Bernie Madoff wife Ruth Madoff?
Why did Investors Trust Bernie Madoff?
Is Bernie Madoff dead or still alive?
How did Bernie Madoff die?
Apr 14, 2021 · 14 April 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...
May 2, 2024 · 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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Apr 14, 2021 · He was 82. He died Wednesday at the Federal Medical Center in Butner, N.C., the Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed, and had been serving out a 150-year sentence. As a money manager, Madoff...
Apr 14, 2021 · Bernie Madoff, who carried out one of the most notorious Ponzi schemes in history, died on Wednesday while serving a prison sentence in North Carolina. Madoff was a legendary figure on Wall...