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Bernie Madoff, The Wizard of Lies

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by Diana B. Henriques


  Echenique Gordillo, Rodrigo, 206

  Echevarria, Manuel, 178

  E.F. Hutton & Company, 72

  Ellis, Ronald, 237–39

  Engler, Mendel “Mike,” 66–69, 84, 92, 137, 231, 334–35

  Engler & Budd, 66–67

  Enron, 122

  “Equitable Treatment of Investors Act,” 324–25

  Erko company, 167

  Euro-Dutch Management, 171

  Europe, 9, 119, 172, 239, 299–300

  banks, 150, 211–12, 320, 330–31

  hedge funds, 136, 166–71, 331

  Eurovaleur, 167

  Everlast Sporting Goods, 30–31

  Fairfield, Conn., public pension funds, 130

  Fairfield Greenwich Group, 1–3, 89, 104–10, 117, 119, 132, 134, 146–47, 166, 171, 175, 319

  audits of, 149

  crisis of 2008

  and, 187–88, 190–93, 195–96, 199–202, 205

  fees of, 109

  lawsuits vs., 257

  Madoff losses disclosed, 211

  redemptions by, 146–51, 161

  Risk Assessment Committee, 193

  SEC investigations and, 153, 157–58

  Fairfield International fund, 90

  Fairfield Sentry fund, 3, 90, 106–7, 120, 147, 160, 173–74, 176, 201–201, 235, 257

  withdrawals by, 187–88, 190–92, 195, 200–202, 204–5

  Fairfield Sigma funds, 174

  Fannie Mae, 20, 193–94, 206

  Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 10, 12–17, 20, 208, 223–24, 241, 245, 248, 250, 255, 259, 309–10, 315, 329

  Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), 196, 219

  Federal Reserve, 172, 186–87, 194, 196, 228

  Federal Tort Claims Act, 303–4

  feeder funds, 58, 92

  chains of, 171, 175

  crisis of 2008 and, 197

  derivatives and, 173–75

  early suspicions of Madoff and, 148–51, 177, 185

  European, 166–71

  fees and commissions, 171

  investigations of, 299–300

  lawsuits vs., 257–58, 295–97, 300, 313, 318, 320

  Madoff liquidation and, 211–12, 231–32, 235, 243, 305, 325–26

  Madoff on, 333

  rates of return and, 176

  withdrawals of 2008, 190

  Feinberg, Jay, 3–4

  Fidelity, 106, 221, 296

  Fifth Avenue Synagogue, 111, 137

  financial crisis of 2008, xxi, 4–5, 20–21, 177–78, 193–209, 241, 266–67

  financial panic of 1907, 174

  Financial World, 82

  FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority), 14, 17, 125, 162–63, 229

  Fiserv Inc, 127

  Fitzmaurice, Thomas, 276

  Fix, Charles, 169

  Flumenbaum, Martin, 9–11, 283–84, 322

  Forbes, 133

  foreign currency, xxiii, 68, 200, 335

  foreign securities, 68, 82

  Fortis, 175

  401(k)s, 126, 343

  Foxman, Abraham, 213

  Foxton, William, 243–44

  France, 74–75, 84, 212, 242, 245, 299–300

  Frangipane, Noelle, 270

  fraudulent conveyances, 256

  Freddie Mac, 20, 193–94, 206

  Friehling, David, 254–55, 301, 309, 326

  Friehling & Horowitz, 89, 149–50, 254–55

  Frisch, Andrew, 310

  front-running, 123, 143–44, 146, 154, 156–57, 166, 272

  funds of funds, 126, 131

  Gabelli, Mario, 130

  Gabriel fund, 111–12

  Gateway fund, 76, 85, 94, 117, 123

  Geffen, David, 212

  General Accounting Office (GAO), 121, 220

  Genevalor, Benbassat & Cie, 168

  Gibraltar, 1, 168, 245

  Gibraltar Securities, 31, 35–36

  Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation, 3–4

  Glantz, Richard, 95, 98

  Goldman Sachs, xxiii, 118, 133, 302, 336

  Goldstein, Allan, 267–68

  Goodman, Jerry, 52

  Gorenstein, Gabriel W., 226, 238

  Great Britain, 212, 242, 245

  Serious Fraud Office (SFO), 239, 299

  Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), 203

  Great Depression, 30, 32, 62, 232

  Greenberg, Alan C., 186

  Grosso, Carlo, 130, 169, 178, 257

  Hadassah, 214, 277, 288, 320, 341

  Halio, Robert, 232

  Halio, Stephanie, 232

  Halliburton, 301

  Halpern & Mantovani, 89

  Harley fund, 169

  Harris, J. Ira, 4

  Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 257

  hedge funds, xxiv. See also feeder funds; and specific banks, funds, and managers

  Bayou scandal and, 147–49

  crisis of 2008 and, 193

  derivatives and, 172–77

  fee structure, 104, 147

  growth of, 125–29, 171–72

  insider trading and, 301

  lack of regulation of, 121, 126–27, 172–73, 296

  lawsuits vs., 295–96, 319

  Madoff and, 104–13, 136, 144–46, 150, 184, 211, 214, 216, 336–37

  offshore, 87–88, 90–91, 110, 117, 130, 169, 185, 201

  pension funds and, 129–32

  Picard lawsuit vs., 318–19

  suspicions about Madoff in, 117–25, 128–29, 138, 140, 142–43, 157

  hedging, 84–85, 122, 145, 190

  institutional trading and, 83

  options trading and, 76

  Herald funds, 169, 171, 197, 202, 243

  Hirschhorn, Carla, 276

  Hofstra University, 178

  Hong Kong, 212

  Hooper, Catherine, 284, 323

  Horowitz, Jerome, 51, 149, 254

  Horwitz, Daniel J., 15–16, 18–20, 224

  housing bubble, 126, 173, 176, 181, 268. See also mortgage default crisis

  HSBC, 175, 185, 192, 211–12, 318–19

  Igoin, Albert, 65, 74–75, 170

  inflation, 52–54, 78, 130

  Infovaleur, 167–68

  insider trading, 73, 79, 111, 133, 143, 156, 301

  Institute for Jewish Research, 213

  insurance companies, 177, 266

  interest rates, 52–53, 172–73

  Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 37, 64, 178–79, 329

  International Olympic Committee, 212

  IPO market, 27

  IRAs, 130–31, 343

  Roth, 172

  self-directed, 126–27

  Israel, 168, 257

  Israel, Samuel, III, 147–48

  Ivy Asset Management, 127–29, 138

  Jaffe, Robert “Bob,” 4, 72–73, 137, 184, 320

  Jewish charities, 4, 60, 88–89, 114, 191–92, 214–15

  Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles, 214

  Jewish Journal, 215

  Joel, Martin J., Jr, 43, 57–58, 293, 314

  Joel, Zuchs & Company, 43

  Johnson, William F., 15–16, 224

  Jones, Alfred W., 104

  JPMorgan Chase, xxiii, 186–87, 199, 201–4

  derivatives and, 174–75, 177

  lawsuit vs., 318

  Madoff slush fund and, 146, 149–51, 157, 161, 177, 207

  Justice Department, 16, 218, 241, 259, 301, 304

  Kaiser Steel, 25

  Kang, B. J., 12–15

  Katzenberg, Jeffrey, 212

  Kay Windsor Inc, 61–62

  Kelly, Keith, 250

  Khuzami, Rob, 302

  King, Larry, 215

  King Arthur Account, 94–98, 101

  Kingate funds, 1, 130, 132, 166, 169, 178, 201, 257

  Kohn, Erwin, 166

  Kohn, Sonja Blau, 1, 166–70, 175, 197, 299, 320–21

  Konigsberg, Paul, 69

  Konigsberg Wolf, 69, 89

  Korea, 31, 171, 212

  Kotz,
H. David, 228, 270–72, 302–3

  Koufax, Sandy, 212

  Kugel, David, 314

  Kurland, Lola, 95–97

  labor union pension funds, 127–29, 171–72, 198, 215

  Lambeth Company, 58–59

  Lamore, Peter, 139–40, 143–46, 156–57, 163–65

  Lankler, Andrew, 255

  Latin America, 171, 174

  Lautenberg, Frank, 217, 293–95

  Laventhol & Horwath, 64

  Lawson, Ernest, 317

  Lax & Nevill, 267–68

  “legitimate expectations,” 262

  Lehman Brothers, 20, 33, 186, 192, 194–95, 197, 206, 221, 228, 234, 256

  Leukemia for Chickens (Roger Madoff), 135

  Levy, Frank, 179

  Levy, Norman F., 61–63, 65, 68, 73–74, 85, 92, 100–101, 148, 179, 305, 335, 340

  Levy family foundations, 100–101, 211, 340

  Lichtenstein, Roy, 189, 245

  Lieberbaum, Michael, 35, 62

  Lieberbaum, Sheldon, 62

  Lifland, Burton R., 239–40, 306–9

  Lipkin, Carole, 43, 314

  Lipkin, Eric, 314

  Lipkin, Irwin, 43, 314

  Lissauer, Sharon, 276

  Litt, Marc, 18, 19, 224, 226, 230, 237–38, 248–52, 297–99

  Littaye, Patrick, 170–71, 178, 300

  Littlestone Associates, 108

  Loebs, 33

  London, Martin, 9

  London bankruptcy court, 318

  London Stock Exchange, 71

  Lux-Alpha funds, 170

  Luxembourg, 212, 245, 300

  Lynch, Peter, 60, 130

  Madoff, Andrew (son), 47, 69, 82–83, 136, 152, 178, 193, 276

  accusations vs., 281–91

  brother’s suicide and, 321–24

  divorce of, 284

  father’s arrest and, 5–13, 19, 226, 230, 274, 324

  illness of, 3, 135, 285

  lawsuits vs., 285–87, 294–95, 321, 324

  loans to, 161, 179, 198

  Madoff, Bernard L. See also Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities; Madoff Securities International, Ltd.; Madoff victims; and specific agencies, funds, and individuals

  arbitrage and, 38–41, 52

  arrest of, 12–16, 19–22, 209, 211, 216–17, 222

  assets of, frozen and sold, 230, 238, 245, 305, 316–18

  audits of, 149–50, 254–55

  automation and, 42–49, 103

  Avellino & Bienes and, 50–56, 77–78, 102

  bail and, 18–20, 224–27, 237–39, 252

  bankruptcy problems exposed by arrest of, 327

  Bayou scandal and, 147–49

  Bear Stearns and, 186–87

  beginning of fraud by, xxiii, 29–30, 41, 81, 85–86, 90–94, 113, 225, 251–52, 271, 274, 298, 333–35

  brokerage firm founded by, and OTC market, 24–27, 34–36

  cash crisis of 1962 and borrowing by, 24–30, 225, 335

  cash crisis of 1987 and, xxiii, 84–87, 90–91, 335–36

  cash crisis of 1992 and, 94–95

  cash crisis of 2005–6 and near exposure of, 146–62

  cash crisis of 2005–6 and recovery by, 166–67, 173–76

  cash crisis of 2008 and lead-up to collapse of, 21, 193–209

  cash flows of 1990s, 81, 90–94

  cash flows of 2002, 132–33

  cash flows of 2007, 182–83

  cash withdrawal requests of 2008 and, 1, 183, 187–88, 190–93, 197, 200–209, 256

  cash withdrawals of 1994–2003, 132–36

  charities and, 3, 88, 110–11, 114, 183, 337

  checks written before confession, 6, 18, 314

  childhood and education of, xxii–xxiii, 24, 30–35

  Cincinnati Stock Exchange and, 68, 76, 86

  civil lawsuits by victims of, 299–302

  clawback lawsuits and, 257–58, 266–67, 288, 294–95

  Cohmad formed by, 70–75, 149

  commission payments and, 117, 136, 151

  confession of, xxi–xxii, 1–12, 207–9, 282

  congressional hearings on, 267–68

  death of parents and, 48

  death of son Mark and, 323

  derivatives and, 174–76

  DiPascali and fraud of, 81–82, 207–9, 297–99

  DTCC and, 119–20, 150–51, 159, 164, 245, 255, 272, 296

  early investors and introducers and, 43, 57–69, 92, 100–102, 110–15, 148

  economic weakness in 2007 and, 176–80

  employee money managed by, 182

  employee salaries and, 178–79

  exclusivity and secrecy and, 59–60, 93, 116–17, 134

  extramarital affair allegations and, 277, 288–89

  Fairfield Greenwich and, 89–91, 104–10, 187–88, 190–93

  falsification of records by, xxiii, 41, 99–100, 102–3, 117–20, 122–27, 129, 139–46, 150–51, 153, 158–59, 163–64, 179, 272–73, 296, 309–10

  family illnesses and, 135–36

  family of, and impact of crime, 278, 281–90

  family of, and questions about knowledge of fraud, 281–84, 333, 337

  family wealth and, 160–61, 178, 182, 258, 321, 334

  father’s brokerage failure and, 31–32, 35–36

  feeder fund fees and, 87, 117

  feeder funds begun by father-in-law, 36–39, 41, 50

  feeder funds begun by nonfamily members, 102, 104–6, 119–21, 123, 130–32

  feelings of, for family, 272

  feelings of, for victims, xx, xxii, 333

  foreign funds and, 65, 74–75, 84, 166–71, 243–44, 335

  French town house, 177, 194, 239, 274, 318

  guilty plea of, 247–53, 326

  hedge funds and, 87–88, 90–91, 104–5, 119, 123, 125–32, 136, 144–46, 171–73

  house arrest of, and gifts to family, 229–30, 237–38

  humanity of, xxi, 345–48

  IRAs and, 126–27

  Jewish connections and, 88–89, 111, 114, 212–15

  lawsuits arising from, 295–97

  lessons of, for investors and regulators, 339–47

  Levy estate executor, 63, 148

  Lipstick Building office of, 2, 71–72, 81, 90, 103, 112, 120

  loans by, to family and staff, 179, 181, 189–90

  London office opened by, 48, 68–69, 82

  losses of, and final account statements, 256

  losses of, and length of fraud, 279

  losses of, and number of victims, 211–16

  lying by, xxii–xviii

  Manhattan penthouse of, 18, 80–81, 274, 280–81, 305, 316

 

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