In general I agree. But it also comes with the embarassment that you failed at your job. So to avoid the embarassment you do nothing. Kick the can down the road. Hope it becomes someone else's problem. And I'd also further add that government agencies being government agencies, the people in the trenches don't want to deal with an obvious pain in the @$$ situation. You know you will be putting a lot or resources into investigating and even starting the process throws your daily work schedule into chaos. So the lower level people just ignore the report on their desk. Case in point, I once had a manager who was very old school. He hated email. He wanted everything in paper copy. You literally could not see the top of his desk because of all the paper covering it. When he finally retired, some of the papers at the bottom had turned yellow they had been there so long. I'm sure there was many things on that desk that just got ignored and the people who submitted the requests simply gave up on it. That was probably exactly what happened in the Madoff case.
I used to date a Jewish girl whose family retired to a very high end neighborhood in S FL. I went down there for Thanksgiving one year. I heard the stories of who was wiped out. Neighbors, friends of their. The blessing during dinner included a part about being thankful for not having invested with Madoff
My parents live in Palm Beach and know quite a few people who were wiped out. People that once had 60, 70, 80 million dollar fortunes, reduced to nothing.
They all knew as well. No one is offering 100%+ returns annually. These people knew he was scamming and said nothing besides they were able to get absurd returns.
Why does Human greed or gullibility shock you..?? It's the foundation stone of the Capitalist economy we all depend on..? Mostly it works ...better than any other system..?
I wonder how long Ernie Madoff thought his Ponzi scheme would last without the market crash in 2008-2009. Since this is a fraud, soon or later it is going to collapse and be exposed.
cause he the reason all them people lost their money every last 1 of madoff clients had been fine for years with no problems ponzi scheme or not everybody was paid & happy & had the weak poor excuse of a man whistleblower minded his business everybody dealing with madoff would still be getting money & happy the whistle blower ruined a lot of people pockets & caused a few deaths
He wasn’t a whistle blower. He had no inside knowledge. The guy was just a competitor that found a cheater in his industry that was protected by the SEC.
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Greed was well with Madoff but also with his investors. They didn't care that the returns were abnormal and made no sense - they just kept coming. Why anyone would put the whole of their wealth in another person's trust is beyond me.
A 12% return isn’t really all that unbelievable. Obviously 18% is super ridiculous. However you can’t really blame some of those people who trusted Bernie thinking if something was up the government would have caught him.
It’s frightening where we’re going as a society. It’s looking so rapidly different in many of the wrong ways as far as free speech and democracy go. Or what’s left of it, anyway. Almost seems like an illusion at this point.
I believe bc he was a cooperating witness. there have been hit men who while giving them evidence are still conducting business . so im not sure what u mean
Bcs it's not real. These are all actors to make the sheep feel like they're doing their job the enslaved tax payers are paying for. It's a masquerade for the masses. They're all criminals.
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The government is suing investors who should have known they were involved in a Ponzi scheme, when the government had been alerted but did nothing to warn investors until it collapsed. Makes sense.
I found it fascinating that some hedge fund managers knew damn well he was a crook. But they believed he was THEIR crook. Amazing all around & pointed out the utter uselessness of the silly, pointless, toothless SEC.
@@Krisha158 Thought the same. He would have made an even better story of it. I think that if Paul Schraeder and Martin were still working with one another, they'd have tried to make something of it.
It's amazing that Madoff could pull this off, especially when SEC supposedly investigated him and his "investments." He made not even one. What surprises me is his wife was able to keep a tidy sum whereby his victims all wound up dead broke.
THE MADOFF RULE: if ur rich, steal from the poor, but don't EVER steal from anyone richer than you. THE EPSTEIN RULE: if ur rich, don't EVER threaten to spill secrets of anyone richer than you.
Mr Madoff didn't steal $60 billion dollars. He re-distributed the money among greedy millionaires and institutions who believed that a market could sustain a 12% annual yield, constantly for years. Zero sympathy for the investors.
This whole version about the family members knowing nothing... ridiculous. The sons ran a trading firm that practiced real stock trades. Two floors down, the investment business says it's buying and selling stocks, yet, the sons never wondered why their own father's investment business didn't use their own trading firm to buy and sell those stocks? The sons never wondered why they hadn't bought or sold a single stock from/for their own father's investment business? Right. Sure.
Greed to the extreme in the name of a fake luxury life! It's really sad and a curse fate that took over the entire family. The worst of human behavior, the white collar predators .
It's nonsense to say that Markopolos was the first to work out what Madoff was doing. Plenty of Wall St. Insiders knew damn-well that Madoff was a crook. That's why they refused to have anything to do with him. Madoff's bankers also knew he was crook, because they saw that he wasn't making any of the trades he claimed to be making and that his company's only source of revenue was his so-called 'investors.'
@@CarrieFinley-g1m Of course they didn't. People who live in glass penthouses seldom thrown stones. Markopolos went to the SEC, but his analysis was buried. The Feds were apparently more interested in protecting confidence in the wider financial system, rather than enforcing the law. Madoff's complicit bank eventually had to cough up around one billion $, but not one banker was ever criminally charged.
How does he not ask the son "You say you didn't know, but have you ever known a firm with consistent 12% annual returns? Are you lying or really that stupid?"
I would suspect that his wife didn't ask many questions likely perhaps due to her having little or no interest in the business and she was likely happy and very satisfied raising two sons who turned out wonderfully. Along with this she would have enjoyed a reasonable social standing in the community due to Barney's standing in the industry and the good life she would have had.
They knew. There was no explanation meeting, there was just a “we are busted so let’s do plan A”…. Notice how even the son’s wife and mother words try to convince everyone that they didn’t know. No sorrow, remorse, just excuses. The son was the only honorable one who coy Don’t live with the GUILT.
I feel really bad for the sons, who lost everything, including their honest business. It sounds like Mrs Madoff also was not culpable, but her attitude suggests she is above it all and has no idea of the impact on regular people. I am not sure why she gets to keep $3 million. Why not take it all and have her live on Social Security like many of her husband's victims. It is not that I want her to suffer, but it seems all of their wealth came from the proceeds of Bernie's grand theft, and therefore qualifies for clawback.
She’s suffering! She is no longer able to see her great hair stylist at her favorite fancy salon, banned from the country clubs, her former friends/associates want nothing to do with her and she can’t really shop where she used to. She better hold onto that $3 mill
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Yes, absolutely, I feel terrible for the people whose lives were ruined by this scheme... But, then - an immutable tenant of economic cycles is: to consistently outperform market trends on such a sustained level and for such a sustained length of time... I am somewhat gobsmacked that none of these people had someone in their lives persistently cautioning, even where becoming a nuisance when doing it...of the extreme implausibility of being that..."lucky." If I am playing a roulette wheel, I would be as equally suspect it was rigged - whether I always lost or I always won.
lol, exactly what I was thinking. These lawyers always take a very high percentage. Ok if if it’s a very small amount but 40-60% of millions or billions could help recover more for the swindled clients.
Largest known!! Kenny griffin of citadel is still running BM payment for order flow....the new winner for largest is about to be crowned. Power to the players
Can you explain more? I really don’t like payment for order flow it rubs me the wrong way. Something I took into account when I chose Fidelity for my brokerage. I like the way they execute orders. Citadel and Robinhood did customers dirty during the short squeeze.
I think it’s very interesting both Bernie and Ruth outlived their sons by a good amount of time. In fact, the only one still living is Ruth and she’s in her 80’s. Normally, children outlive parents but not here. I just think it’s interesting.
The fact that the sons wife will make a profit from the book just screams that they’re trying to recoup the money, how bout sending the profits to those who actually lost something valuable
To watch this now 15 years or so later I have some sympathy for his family and what his kids and wife had to deal with. obviously for the victims that lost everything. I remember having no sympathy for his family when this happened. I was almost 30. It's crazy how ones perspective can change.
It’s impossible that a company with $65B equity. Only the head knows the reality. Those bank accounts always are checked by several people in the company . Plus the fact that of her no filling for a divorce make me think there is money somewhere.
I do believe Ruth. Not saying that she didn't suspect anything. But she did and still supports him in some way. You can't blame someone for being blinded by love. She might've lost more than any of them. Karma is a heavy price to pay for greed. Everyone lost in the end. Be careful what you ask for.
It's nonsense to say that Madoff stole that amount. When he was finally arrested, Madoff controlled about one billion $, but on paper, his fake hedge fund was once supposed to be worth 60 billions.
I don't think the sons knew. They worked in the legitimate side. Parents can hide a lot from you, especially domineering parents. May the son who committed suicide rest in peace. The son is not to blame for the sins of their father. My sympathy to all the victims of Madoff.
The son is so full of crap, nonsense, trying to gain sympathy, and he makes me sick. All of a sudden he is a hero who wouldn’t bail his father out? After all the money his father gave him he would just leave him hanging? No honor, all greed, and I’m glad the dude is almost homeless….
David Boise himself invested in Elizabeth Holmes scam and was fighting like a pit bull for her by threatening the people who raised concerns. No wonder Dershovitz wanted to disbar him on many occasions. Now is flipping on the other side.
Allen Dershowitz is a name which always comes up when it involves criminals. Yes he is a lawyer, but look at his client roster: Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, Harvey Weinstein, O J Simpson, Sholom Rubashkin, just to name a few. Dershowitz admitted that he “took advantage” of a “massage” at Jeffrey Epstein’s home, but said “he kept his shorts on”. The underage girl said she was sexually molested by him six times. The case was settled out of court (meaning he paid for her silence). DOJ & FBI look the other way because of the “don’t tell” rule. Power = Silence
I do not believe the sons knew at all. Their father they knew their whole lives. Investigated and cleared by the SEC, he was the chairman of the Nasdaq. Worked on a different floor completely. I believe the sons. But not the mother.
It's ok. He scammed rich people with way too much money and way too much greed. And then lost it all and died alone, abandoned by his equally greedy family in prison. For me, this is a win-win.
You have no idea what you’re talking about. He scammed rich people AND many middle class people who lost their entire life savings. Who are you to judge without knowing anything?
It looks like Bernie's wife is giving off too many facial cues that she knew what was going on for quite awhile. She certainly looks and sounds like she's lying.
And the son was worse. No honor and left his father hanging after the millions after getting millions. His wife and him spend all their time n how innocent they were but never say sorry OR give any money back voluntarily!!
@@brandonbrown4819 No one is actually "Israeli". They're Turkish, Austrian, Slavic, or European who emigrated to Palestine and took the locals' houses and land.
@@BOBMAN1980 It doesn't matter if you say they are all from Loompa Land or are Chinese Zen Buddhists!! the suggestion that Bernie gave all the Money to Israel or AIpac is lunatic drivel
Lots and lots of palms were greased over decades to pull that scam off. Nobody on their own could commit a crime of that size. All of it including the investors (victims) was driven by greed
Although the thousands of investor-victims are victims for sure, as they drove, those many years to the Hamptons and sailed the Horn or the Cape with family and friends mostly white, mostly unapologetically privileged, and dismissed the doormen and maids who they paid less than a living wage over the years and worried that their sons and daughters might bring home one of those lesser kinds of people one day, to now have to pass the lobster tank at Food Lion on their way to get some chicken and really contemplate the sticker amount on that package of steak, all seems, if not Karma, but maybe Karma-light.
both his sons died and after the final settlements, their estates were allowed to keep about $3M, so they're doing just fine. Also, White? They're all jews, that was a key selling point of the "investment opportunity"--I guess they're deceitful even to each other, sad.
When government ignores and doesn’t immediately take action, someone is benefiting
All the higher ups
In general I agree. But it also comes with the embarassment that you failed at your job. So to avoid the embarassment you do nothing. Kick the can down the road. Hope it becomes someone else's problem. And I'd also further add that government agencies being government agencies, the people in the trenches don't want to deal with an obvious pain in the @$$ situation. You know you will be putting a lot or resources into investigating and even starting the process throws your daily work schedule into chaos. So the lower level people just ignore the report on their desk.
Case in point, I once had a manager who was very old school. He hated email. He wanted everything in paper copy. You literally could not see the top of his desk because of all the paper covering it. When he finally retired, some of the papers at the bottom had turned yellow they had been there so long. I'm sure there was many things on that desk that just got ignored and the people who submitted the requests simply gave up on it. That was probably exactly what happened in the Madoff case.
It's not a task of the government to stand between the greedy and the stupid and their greed and stupidity.
Can't speak up against the tiny hat mafia
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I used to date a Jewish girl whose family retired to a very high end neighborhood in S FL. I went down there for Thanksgiving one year. I heard the stories of who was wiped out. Neighbors, friends of their. The blessing during dinner included a part about being thankful for not having invested with Madoff
My parents live in Palm Beach and know quite a few people who were wiped out. People that once had 60, 70, 80 million dollar fortunes, reduced to nothing.
@@nicholasking7120 both victims and con artist have one thing in common greed
@@Zanzan8victims were greedy? What you babbling about?
They all knew as well.
No one is offering 100%+ returns annually.
These people knew he was scamming and said nothing besides they were able to get absurd returns.
@@JK-cn5fy 12 percent returns come Hell or High Water ... ??!!! surely, they would have known it by then !!!
Amazingly, about 90% of the “fraud” losses were recovered. Victims didn’t get their phantom profits back, but the did get their principal back.
US gov bailout likely
@@nicholasking7120 wrong. Check your facts.
The remaining 10 percent probably were the biggest losers but they'll be fine
Didn’t know that.
Harry Markapolos wrote a book about the Madoff ponzi scheme. It's excellent! It's called "No One Would Listen"
Thanks just borrowed it from the library. I was in the kitchen fixing dinner and was wondering if they guy wrote a book.
Makes you wonder if anyone on the SEC was getting paid off to look the other way.
Excellent one/point dear! 👍👏👍👏👍
They did paid off
Thanks, Sherlock. Guess what, though, you raise an important point. What other industries is this happening in...hint hint FDA, DOJ, etc
@@johngoldsworthy7135 And some really think that their lord and savior Donald Christ will somehow magically fix it all.
@@BradenENelsonhas Biden solved it? Or maybe we should ask hunter ?
So many years later and the scheme of Madoff still shocks me.
Why does Human greed or gullibility shock you..?? It's the foundation stone of the
Capitalist economy we all depend on..?
Mostly it works ...better than any other
system..?
Why?
I wonder how long Ernie Madoff thought his Ponzi scheme would last without the market crash in 2008-2009. Since this is a fraud, soon or later it is going to collapse and be exposed.
Profits over people is NOT a good or better system.
Same here
That whistle blower is the economic equivalent of Batman... Does a excellent job but everyone hates him... Very sad 😢
cause he the reason all them people lost their money every last 1 of madoff clients had been fine for years with no problems ponzi scheme or not everybody was paid & happy & had the weak poor excuse of a man whistleblower minded his business everybody dealing with madoff would still be getting money & happy the whistle blower ruined a lot of people pockets & caused a few deaths
I like Batman !
He wasn’t a whistle blower. He had no inside knowledge. The guy was just a competitor that found a cheater in his industry that was protected by the SEC.
A bit like Jesus.
Yes but the people of Gotham didn't.... And that guy literally recieved a whistle as a award 🤔
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Greed was well with Madoff but also with his investors. They didn't care that the returns were abnormal and made no sense - they just kept coming. Why anyone would put the whole of their wealth in another person's trust is beyond me.
Actually they were not that abnormal , the problem was it was always up.
@@mariapilarme if it's always up that's abnormal crazy. No investment is never down
A 12% return isn’t really all that unbelievable. Obviously 18% is super ridiculous. However you can’t really blame some of those people who trusted Bernie thinking if something was up the government would have caught him.
We are all trusting someone. Think about it. I get what you’re saying in this case though.
Returns are not always positive. I'm sorry but bells should start to go off at some point and you cash out early and invest with a legit company.
When somebody says it’s virtually impossible to violate the rules it means they are doing it themselves and they don’t want competition.
Wow, a whistleblower who was not sacked, not had their reputation trashed or even jailed. How times have changed.
Because he robbed the rich as much as he did the poor, otherwise he would still be running along
And not found dead under very suspicious circumstances like the two Boeing whistleblowers John Barnett and Joshua Dean
It’s frightening where we’re going as a society. It’s looking so rapidly different in many of the wrong ways as far as free speech and democracy go. Or what’s left of it, anyway. Almost seems like an illusion at this point.
I believe bc he was a cooperating witness. there have been hit men who while giving them evidence are still conducting business . so im not sure what u mean
Bcs it's not real. These are all actors to make the sheep feel like they're doing their job the enslaved tax payers are paying for. It's a masquerade for the masses. They're all criminals.
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1:24 "and blew the whistle" legendary
The government is suing investors who should have known they were involved in a Ponzi scheme, when the government had been alerted but did nothing to warn investors until it collapsed. Makes sense.
I found it fascinating that some hedge fund managers knew damn well he was a crook. But they believed he was THEIR crook. Amazing all around & pointed out the utter uselessness of the silly, pointless, toothless SEC.
The Robert de Niro movie is excellent with Michelle Pfeiffer as Ruth...great performance
She looked so much like his wife. Great film
What’s that movie called
I was just thinking there should be a Scorsese movie. It would be amazing
@@Krisha158 Thought the same. He would have made an even better story of it. I think that if Paul Schraeder and Martin were still working with one another, they'd have tried to make something of it.
@@mymymyersThe Wizard of Lies
I would check the income levels of the SEC employees involved and compare it to their lifestyles
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The names of the people at the SCC who failed to do their job, should have been included. They should have been investigated as well.
SEC, sorry.
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No amount of money is worth the pain of losing your child. So sad for all parties involved with the exception of Bernie.
Not all children are great.
@@urofseronnot all comments are useful/relevant
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Netflix special on this was soooo good
It's amazing that Madoff could pull this off, especially when SEC supposedly investigated him and his "investments." He made not even one.
What surprises me is his wife was able to keep a tidy sum whereby his victims all wound up dead broke.
She lives in a nursing home and has two dead children and a dead criminal husband. To be honest I feel bad for her.
THE MADOFF RULE: if ur rich, steal from the poor, but don't EVER steal from anyone richer than you.
THE EPSTEIN RULE: if ur rich, don't EVER threaten to spill secrets of anyone richer than you.
something these two guys have in common. hmmm....
The key 🗝 to life
Unless you are the US gov…that’s a license to steal. It’s called “taxes”.
Trump doesn’t want to spill the Epstein beans that’s for sure.
Like him or loathe him, there's no denying he had a brilliant Mind!
Mr Madoff didn't steal $60 billion dollars. He re-distributed the money among greedy millionaires and institutions who believed that a market could sustain a 12% annual yield, constantly for years. Zero sympathy for the investors.
Zero sympathy for the carpenters whose pension funds were invested? How would they know what was happening?
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@@BrianCrouchCorrect. Zero. Any investor knows that level of return is not realistic.
@@urofseron they're carpenters. They hired a pension management institution. The fiduciary is to blame for lack of due diligence.
This whole version about the family members knowing nothing... ridiculous. The sons ran a trading firm that practiced real stock trades. Two floors down, the investment business says it's buying and selling stocks, yet, the sons never wondered why their own father's investment business didn't use their own trading firm to buy and sell those stocks? The sons never wondered why they hadn't bought or sold a single stock from/for their own father's investment business? Right. Sure.
Exactly. The sons knew what was happening from day 1.
Jim simmon said he couldn’t see maddofs trades moving the markets so he removed his money 😂😂, very smart man
Greed to the extreme in the name of a fake luxury life! It's really sad and a curse fate that took over the entire family. The worst of human behavior, the white collar predators .
Normal human behavior.ecentric rules made it famous
It's nonsense to say that Markopolos was the first to work out what Madoff was doing. Plenty of Wall St. Insiders knew damn-well that Madoff was a crook. That's why they refused to have anything to do with him. Madoff's bankers also knew he was crook, because they saw that he wasn't making any of the trades he claimed to be making and that his company's only source of revenue was his so-called 'investors.'
They knew, but did they report?
@@CarrieFinley-g1m Of course they didn't. People who live in glass penthouses seldom thrown stones. Markopolos went to the SEC, but his analysis was buried. The Feds were apparently more interested in protecting confidence in the wider financial system, rather than enforcing the law. Madoff's complicit bank eventually had to cough up around one billion $, but not one banker was ever criminally charged.
It was called greed. That’s what kept him going.
How does he not ask the son "You say you didn't know, but have you ever known a firm with consistent 12% annual returns? Are you lying or really that stupid?"
I would suspect that his wife didn't ask many questions likely perhaps due to her having little or no interest in the business and she was likely happy and very satisfied raising two sons who turned out wonderfully. Along with this she would have enjoyed a reasonable social standing in the community due to Barney's standing in the industry and the good life she would have had.
They knew. There was no explanation meeting, there was just a “we are busted so let’s do plan A”…. Notice how even the son’s wife and mother words try to convince everyone that they didn’t know. No sorrow, remorse, just excuses.
The son was the only honorable one who coy
Don’t live with the GUILT.
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I don't think the wife knew, but the sons and a handful of high rollers I'd say definitely knew what was going on
Who is "Barney"? You mean "Bernie"?
I feel really bad for the sons, who lost everything, including their honest business. It sounds like Mrs Madoff also was not culpable, but her attitude suggests she is above it all and has no idea of the impact on regular people. I am not sure why she gets to keep $3 million. Why not take it all and have her live on Social Security like many of her husband's victims. It is not that I want her to suffer, but it seems all of their wealth came from the proceeds of Bernie's grand theft, and therefore qualifies for clawback.
She’s suffering! She is no longer able to see her great hair stylist at her favorite fancy salon, banned from the country clubs, her former friends/associates want nothing to do with her and she can’t really shop where she used to. She better hold onto that $3 mill
she should've been left $500 week lifetime pension
The entire family was in on it
Notice on 60 minutes Australia comments are turned off, in other words censored, so that deception cannot be publicly disputed.
That is why I don’t watch Australia 60 minutes. The whole point of internet is to allow people’s opinions.
its like that for several austrailian news channels. guessing it may be some policy.
@@LondonCalling12 Yeah I wonder what the sappiest and wokist country in the world could be hiding.
Is there freedom of speech in Australia or why the censoring?
When the SEC got embarrassed on a national level and nothings ever been the same.
I believe the family didn’t know. If he was smart enough to rip people off then he knew to keep the family out of it.
They have little beady eyes, and LOOK guilty. The fact that there were never any trades would have exposed everything. They knew…..
I don't think the wife knew but I reckon the sons definitely knew
They traded in their own business. It would be easy to identify the signs.
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Yes, absolutely, I feel terrible for the people whose lives were ruined by this scheme...
But, then - an immutable tenant of economic cycles is: to consistently outperform market trends on such a sustained level and for such a sustained length of time...
I am somewhat gobsmacked that none of these people had someone in their lives persistently cautioning, even where becoming a nuisance when doing it...of the extreme implausibility of being that..."lucky."
If I am playing a roulette wheel, I would be as equally suspect it was rigged - whether I always lost or I always won.
You all are great actors. 🎭
Such a great timing! Reuploading it now, at this market state, that's the kind of dark humor I prefer! So history does not repeat itself, right?
lol! Lawyers talking about taking the money back. I bet their fees are exorbitant.
lol, exactly what I was thinking. These lawyers always take a very high percentage. Ok if if it’s a very small amount but 40-60% of millions or billions could help recover more for the swindled clients.
Reportedly the trustee lawyers made $1 Billion
They NEVER lose !!!
No the larges ponzi is the federal reserve
Insurers paid Silverstein, Taxpayers paid the families , only in America ; Land of the Fleeced and the Home of the Played
That's better. 60 minutes. TIME STAMP. Be honest. It's good you listened.
I still think its waaay ironic that the last name was madoff 😂😂
Bernie likes himself so much that he took his own story as an example to lecture others😂
Largest known!! Kenny griffin of citadel is still running BM payment for order flow....the new winner for largest is about to be crowned. Power to the players
Can you explain more? I really don’t like payment for order flow it rubs me the wrong way. Something I took into account when I chose Fidelity for my brokerage. I like the way they execute orders. Citadel and Robinhood did customers dirty during the short squeeze.
I think it’s very interesting both Bernie and Ruth outlived their sons by a good amount of time. In fact, the only one still living is Ruth and she’s in her 80’s. Normally, children outlive parents but not here. I just think it’s interesting.
Definition of family 💯 ‼️
So who else got an advertisement for a blatant Ponzi scheme at the beginning of this video? 😂😂😂
43:29 😂😂😂 God said you’re not getting off that easy 😂😂😂
The fact that the sons wife will make a profit from the book just screams that they’re trying to recoup the money, how bout sending the profits to those who actually lost something valuable
"She cooked" so obvious she had never cooked before. This was when she realized it was over.
This all to common TRAGIC STORY is a quintessentially perfect example of MONEY ADDICTION.
Regulation is very important ... Sincere prayers up for all the victims of this tragedy 🙏🏽 ...
"I'm gonna go get the papers, get the papers."
I got it!😂
To watch this now 15 years or so later I have some sympathy for his family and what his kids and wife had to deal with. obviously for the victims that lost everything. I remember having no sympathy for his family when this happened. I was almost 30. It's crazy how ones perspective can change.
It’s impossible that a company with $65B equity. Only the head knows the reality. Those bank accounts always are checked by several people in the company . Plus the fact that of her no filling for a divorce make me think there is money somewhere.
this was tough to read. edit with chat gpt
I do believe Ruth. Not saying that she didn't suspect anything. But she did and still supports him in some way. You can't blame someone for being blinded by love. She might've lost more than any of them. Karma is a heavy price to pay for greed. Everyone lost in the end. Be careful what you ask for.
She seemed like a simple minded woman.
Madoff stole 50,000 milion dollars.... That's incredible
60 billion, actually.
You could even say he ..madoff with 50 billion dollars ....
It's nonsense to say that Madoff stole that amount.
When he was finally arrested, Madoff controlled about one billion $, but on paper, his fake hedge fund was once supposed to be worth 60 billions.
Probably, 5 times more than what is told to the media.
@@Carl-b1q What the media has always reported, is what Madoff merely pretended the value of fake hedge fund to be.
And his wife blamed it all on the gentiles. Can you believe it!!
Lol what?
look at his eyes and scan his voice, he is one of those that bring chaos to whole societies. I dont believe a word outta his mouth.
@@PaintballVideosNetagree! What???
@@PaintballVideosNethello fellow paintballer! Hope you have a good day buddy! 😊
I think you might need medication dear…
Authorities will never find Ruth’s money.
I don't think the sons knew. They worked in the legitimate side. Parents can hide a lot from you, especially domineering parents. May the son who committed suicide rest in peace. The son is not to blame for the sins of their father. My sympathy to all the victims of Madoff.
Why do the mega rich always look so weird
There the big J's eeee www s
@@l-jg9lp In your silly mind it's all Js????
@@brandonbrown4819 no just the zionists and bankers
@@l-jg9lp Did you mean "They're"?
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Ruth’s testimony of attempting suicide is such trash…
Okay mister know it all
The son is so full of crap, nonsense, trying to gain sympathy, and he makes me sick. All of a sudden he is a hero who wouldn’t bail his father out? After all the money his father gave him he would just leave him hanging? No honor, all greed, and I’m glad the dude is almost homeless….
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He's still a multi millionaire
@@BillSikes. Andrew died of cancer in 2014.
Aspirin....Ruth has the "little baby" good goo voice......" I'm just a silly little girl "
I like this video
Wow, thanks for sharing a lifetime memory some of US still continue to remember the great author & his fantastic book, ALWELEDIM.
Educate yourself and trust nobody with your money without you understanding the what, the when and the HOW?
Excellent explanation!
David Boise himself invested in Elizabeth Holmes scam and was fighting like a pit bull for her by threatening the people who raised concerns.
No wonder Dershovitz wanted to disbar him on many occasions. Now is flipping on the other side.
Allen Dershowitz is a name which always comes up when it involves criminals. Yes he is a lawyer, but look at his client roster:
Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, Harvey Weinstein, O J Simpson, Sholom Rubashkin, just to name a few.
Dershowitz admitted that he “took advantage” of a “massage” at Jeffrey Epstein’s home, but said “he kept his shorts on”. The underage girl said she was sexually molested by him six times. The case was settled out of court (meaning he paid for her silence). DOJ & FBI look the other way because of the “don’t tell” rule.
Power = Silence
SBF videos brought me here. IYKYK.
The two lawyers pursuing this are no better than Bernie himself.
They billed over $1 Billion dollars for their services!
“No one is that good”
Juan Soto; “Hold my beer “
The only time a gew goes to jail is if they steal from another gew
What's a gew 🤔
@@BillSikes. Jew
facts he stole from so many jews that's why they made it a big thing lol
Arguably one of the greatest minds of the 20th century
I do not believe the sons knew at all. Their father they knew their whole lives. Investigated and cleared by the SEC, he was the chairman of the Nasdaq. Worked on a different floor completely. I believe the sons. But not the mother.
I believe the mother. She didn't even know what a Ponzi scheme was.
Good I wanted to know as much as I can about this man and the way he makes money
It's ok. He scammed rich people with way too much money and way too much greed. And then lost it all and died alone, abandoned by his equally greedy family in prison. For me, this is a win-win.
Faked his death like his alter Jeffrey Epstein
You have no idea what you’re talking about. He scammed rich people AND many middle class people who lost their entire life savings. Who are you to judge without knowing anything?
it's the greed blinding their eyes and senses.
He feels bad about his father's decision but not bad enough to give up the stolen money. Yeah buddy
At least he's not stupid.
The SEC did the same thing for SBF and ftx.
Picard made 1 billon .. How is that fair? Greedy Lawyer, take 20million and give the rest back to the actual victims.
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Lol the ticking came on as I was checking my phone. I thought it was a bomb. 😂 I wasn't even watching this show 💀
Is it possible for the family to take a polygraph test ?
Polygraph tests are BS
The only person alive is Ruth and she’s in a care facility.
@@Otis1330 damn
They all knew, but he assured them it would never fail.
18:13 the real crime is a $15 tip on a $254 bill
The SEC was complicit along with Madoff. You scratch my back, I scratch yours...
It looks like Bernie's wife is giving off too many facial cues that she knew what was going on for quite awhile. She certainly looks and sounds like she's lying.
RUTHIE IS NOT HONEST, .........SHE HAS NO SHAME, LIVING ON THIS DIRTY MONEY.
And the son was worse. No honor and left his father hanging after the millions after getting millions. His wife and him spend all their time n how innocent they were but never say sorry OR give any money back voluntarily!!
What a load of crap,what about the liability of the SEC…how about holding them accountable
"Where'd the money go?"
Lets look at Israel and AIPAC.
My thoughts exactly.
same !
madoff wasn't Israeli- how silly!
@@brandonbrown4819 No one is actually "Israeli".
They're Turkish, Austrian, Slavic, or European who emigrated to Palestine and took the locals' houses and land.
@@BOBMAN1980 It doesn't matter if you say they are all from Loompa Land or are Chinese Zen Buddhists!! the suggestion that Bernie gave all the Money to Israel or AIpac is lunatic drivel
so why do people keep on investing in Nasdaq , after it was already proven to be a scam ?
Obviously a despot.....but am still puzzled that his punishment was worse than 90% of murderers. Or rapists.
His crime is arguably worse. He ruined thousands of lives.
It’s just money…
He stole from the rich and powerful, that's why
He was a murderer
Bernies wife- this is a masterclass: How to make no one feel the least bit bad for you.
Bro was just maximizing shareholder value 😤
His sons definitely knew what was going on
SEC dropped the ball
The SEC investigated Madoff no less than 6 times. Each time, the investigation was ordered closed from the top.
Lots and lots of palms were greased over decades to pull that scam off. Nobody on their own could commit a crime of that size. All of it including the investors (victims) was driven by greed
Although the thousands of investor-victims are victims for sure, as they drove, those many years to the Hamptons and sailed the Horn or the Cape with family and friends mostly white, mostly unapologetically privileged, and dismissed the doormen and maids who they paid less than a living wage over the years and worried that their sons and daughters might bring home one of those lesser kinds of people one day, to now have to pass the lobster tank at Food Lion on their way to get some chicken and really contemplate the sticker amount on that package of steak, all seems, if not Karma, but maybe Karma-light.
both his sons died and after the final settlements, their estates were allowed to keep about $3M, so they're doing just fine. Also, White? They're all jews, that was a key selling point of the "investment opportunity"--I guess they're deceitful even to each other, sad.
SBF said hold my beer 😂
You all helped him get away with it!!
Made off with it all and the lavish lifestyle for his family. They all paid the price in the end. A lesson needed
If you thought this was big, wait until you see what's coming down the pike.
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Hahahaha what?
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Classic troll comment
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