“In September 2010, in the first months of this intensifying isolation, Bernie Madoff became my pen pal–forced by captivity to rely almost entirely on e-mail and letters to carry out his last, desperate mission.
That mission: rewriting history–his own history. Where better to start than with his biographer?”
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Diana Henriques talked about her book The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust. She was interviewed by Jill Jorden Spitz and responded to questions from members of the audience.
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“The financial corporate world is an intensely difficult place to develop sources. The document landscape is wonderful, but the source-building landscape remains the most challenging I have ever worked in. The current environment with so much hostility aimed at corporate America has intensified that challenge.” Full Article
“I am impatient with descriptions of Madoff that demonize him or dismiss him as some sort of sub-human monster,” said The New York Times senior financial reporter. “It lets Madoff off the hook in a way I am not willing to do.“
Almost three years after Bernard Madoff was arrested for running a massive $65 billion Ponzi scheme, the two surviving members of his immediate family — his wife, Ruth, and his youngest son Andrew — have broken their public silence in the form of a new book on their family and a handful of media appearances to promote it.
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Watch Madoff Family Speaks Out on Ponzi Scheme Scandal on PBS. See more from PBS NewsHour.
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He’s the man responsible for killing “trust,” and Palm Beach County was one of his many victims. That’s what Diana Henriques, a senior financial writer for the New York Times, says about Bernie Madoff in her new book, The Wizard of Lies.