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  1. 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]

  2. 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 devastating...

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  3. Apr 15, 2021 · Madoff, 70, will plead guilty on March 12 that he directed a fraud that totaled as much as $64.8 billion, the largest Ponzi scheme in U.S. history, his lawyer Ira Sorkin said in a court hearing...

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  4. Apr 14, 2021 · Bernie Madoff, the financier who orchestrated what is thought to be the largest Ponzi scheme in history, has died. He was 82. He died Wednesday at the Federal Medical Center in Butner, N.C., the...

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  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.

  6. Apr 14, 2021 · Madoff confessed to a scheme that defrauded tens of thousands of people of as much as $65 billion over four decades. He died in prison in 2021, after his request for compassionate release was denied.

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  8. 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 announced...

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