Catastrophe The Story of Bernard L. Madoff, the Man who Swindled the World
by Strober, DeborahFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2009-03-19
Publisher(s): Phoenix Books, Inc.
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Summary
In December 2008, amidst a world gripped by financial crisis, Bernard Madoff, a respected fund manager, and former chairman of Nasdaq, was arrested by the Fbi for reportedly bilking thousands of trusting investors out of $50 billion.
Author Biography
Deborah and Gerald Strober are the authors of oral historiesof the Kennedy, Nixon and Reagan presidencies and of oral biographies of Queen Elizabeth II, The Dalai Lama, Billy Graham and Rudy Giuliani. Their latest book, Israel at Sixty was published in February 2008. The Strobers live in New York and in Herzliya-by-the-Sea, Israel.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. vii |
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| December II, 2008 | |
| The Confession and Arrest of Bernard Madoff | p. 3 |
| The Victims of the Scandal That Could Wipe Out a Generation of Jewish Wealth | p. 13 |
| The Jewish Community Is Not the Only Victim | p. 49 |
| The Madoff Family | |
| The Man Behind the Shameless Violation of the Commandment "Thou Shalt Not Steal" | p. 63 |
| What Do the Wife, the Sons, and the Brother Know? | p. 91 |
| Absorbing the Shock and Dealing with the Consequences | |
| The Profound Sense of Loss | p. 103 |
| The Anti-Semitic Vox Populi Speaks | p. 113 |
| The Shakeout | |
| Where Do We Go from Here? | p. 119 |
| And the News Keeps Rolling In | p. 129 |
| What Punishment Could Possibly Fit the Crime? | p. 165 |
| Afterword | p. 171 |
| Appendices | |
| BMIS Mission Statement | p. 181 |
| Markopolos Letter to the Sec, November 7, 2005 | p. 191 |
| SEC Filing, December 12, 2008 | p. 211 |
| SEC Filing, December 15, 2008 | p. 233 |
| SEC Filing, December 18, 2008 | p. 241 |
| Lawsuit Filed by Irwin Kellner, December 12, 2008 | p. 253 |
| Decision to Deny Government's Motion to Revoke Madoff's Bail, January 12, 2009 | p. 263 |
| Wall Street Journal List of Major Victims, Updated as of January 5, 2009 | p. 287 |
| List of Authors' Interviewees | p. 293 |
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