1st Edition

Con Game Bernard Madoff and His Victims

By Lionel S. Lewis Copyright 2012
279 Pages
by Routledge

280 Pages
by Routledge

279 Pages
by Routledge

Bernard Madoff's financial fraud was global, an enormous amount of money was involved, and thousands of people and hundreds of institutions were swindled. Madoff's con game was a Ponzi scheme an investment that pays returns to early investors from money acquired from subsequent investors. This case study of the Madoff scheme looks at the effects of his crimes on the victims. Elements from a... Read more
Introduction; 1: The Victims and Their Day in Court; 2: Going on the Offensive; 3: After Madoff: Waiting for Justice; 4: A Touch of Greed, Fragile Egos, and More; 5: Diminished Selves, Picking Up the Pieces, and Other Matters: Three Clients Speak; 6: Some Activists Speak; 7: How Madoff Did It: Victims’ Accounts; 8: Madoff’s Allure: Money and Mystique; 9: Summing Up

Biography

Lionel S. Lewis