Bernie Madoff
American financier and con artist (1938–2021)
🗓️ 14 April 2021
Bernard Lawrence Madoff was an American financier and con artist who was the admitted mastermind of the largest known Ponzi scheme in history, worth an estimated $65 billion. He was at one time chairman of the Nasdaq stock exchange. Madoff's firm had two basic units: a stock brokerage and an asset management business; the Ponzi scheme was centered in the asset management business.
