Thursday, October 14, 2010

PONZI SCHEMES: INFAMOUS PERPETRATORS - Part 6

BERNIE’S BAD BUSINESS

Many news organizations covered and continue to cover the schemes of Bernard “Bernie” Madoff, as they are still unfolding. We are currently aware that throughout decades Madoff built the biggest Ponzi scheme in history. He offered investors the chance to steadily earn a higher-than-average return on the securities he traded, year after year. He would forge documents indicating a securities purchase made months earlier than they were actually bought. Truthfully, the investments made by Madoff were legally and mathematically impossible. Madoff’s scam ran during an economic boom, which was people’s normal sense of skepticism is set aside. Investors were simply blinded by “easy money.” He cheated banks, various nonprofit organizations, funds, celebrities and numerous other individuals out of approximately $65 billion.

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