In December 2008, Bernard Madoff, a Wall Street legend, stood in his lavish Manhattan penthouse and confessed to his sons: “his entire empire was a lie”. For decades, he’d orchestrated the biggest fraud in history—a $64.8 billion Ponzi scheme that shattered the lives of thousands, from retirees to Hollywood stars. How did one man deceive so many for so long?
A timeline of Bernie Madoff’s career. Source: Micaela Brody