He has indicated that the Big Four and others—a number of feeder funds pumped client funds to him, some all but outsourcing their management of clients' assets—must have suspected the returns he produced or at least should have.
Madoff's apparently ultra-high returns persuaded clients to look the other way. When clients wished to redeem their investments, Madoff funded the payouts with new capital, which he attracted through a reputation for unbelievable returns and grooming his victims by earning their trust. Madoff also cultivated an image of exclusivity, often initially turning clients away. This model allowed roughly half of Madoff's investors to cash out at a profit. These investors have been required to pay into a victims' fund to compensate defrauded investors who lost money.
Madoff created a front of respectability and generosity, wooing investors through his charitable work. He also defrauded a number of nonprofits, and some had their funds nearly wiped out, including the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Peace and the global women's charity Hadassah. He used his friendship with J. Madoff's plausibility to investors was based on several factors:. The SEC had been investigating Madoff and his securities firm on and off since —a fact that frustrated many after he was finally prosecuted, since it was felt that the biggest damage could have been prevented if the initial investigations had been rigorous enough.
Financial analyst Harry Markopolos was one of the earliest whistleblowers. In , he calculated in the space of an afternoon that Madoff had to be lying. He filed his first SEC complaint against Madoff in , but the regulator ignored him. In this case, there is no SEC reward payment due to the whistle-blower so basically I'm turning this case in because it's the right thing to do. Many felt that Madoff's worst damage could have been prevented if the SEC had been more rigorous in its initial investigations.
Using what he called a "Mosaic Method," Markopolos noted a number of irregularities. The bottom line, concluded by Markopolos, was that "the investors that pony up the money don't know that BM [Bernie Madoff] is managing their money.
It was not until —shortly after Madoff nearly went belly-up due to a wave of redemptions—that the regulator asked Madoff for documentation on his trading accounts. He made up a six-page list, the SEC drafted letters to two of the firms listed but didn't send them, and that was that. The SEC was excoriated in following the revelation of Madoff's fraud and their slow response to act on it. In November , Bernard L. As the selling continued, Madoff became unable to keep up with a cascade of client redemption requests and, on Dec.
Madoff has insisted he acted alone, though several of his colleagues were sent to prison. His elder son Mark Madoff committed suicide exactly two years after his father's fraud was exposed. Several of Madoff's investors also killed themselves.
Andy Madoff died of cancer in His three homes and yacht were auctioned off by the U. On February 5th, , Madoff's lawyers requested that Madoff be released early from prison claiming that he is suffering from a terminal kidney disease that may kill him within 18 months. Madoff is ten years into his year sentence. The paper trail of victims' claims displays the complexity and sheer size of Madoff's betrayal of investors.
According to documents, Madoff's scam ran more than five decades, beginning in the s. While Madoff pleaded guilty in and will spend the rest of his life in prison, thousands of investors lost their life savings, and multiple tales detail the harrowing sense of loss victims endured.
Investors victimized by Madoff have been helped by Irving Picard, a New York lawyer overseeing the liquidation of Madoff's firm in bankruptcy court.
Richard Breeden, a former SEC chair who is overseeing the fund, noted that thousands of the claims were from "indirect investors"—meaning people who put money into funds that Madoff had invested in during his scheme. He cheated his victims out of their money so he and his wife … could live a life of luxury beyond belief.
At least two investors killed themselves after suffering losses because of the scam. His other son, Andrew, died of cancer at the age of 48 in , and had blamed the stress of the scam as the cause of the disease relapsing after 11 years since he first fought it off.
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So it's horrible," he told the Post. I made a terrible mistake. And you know I suffer with it. I'll suffer with it when I get out. But about four months later, a judge denied the request , saying Madoff committed "one of the most egregious financial crimes of all time," and that "many people are still suffering. For more than 50 years, Bernie Madoff was renowned on Wall Street, a big money manager who founded his own firm at age 22 and became nonexecutive chairman of the Nasdaq in He was credited with helping develop some of the systems and market structures that moved the stock market beyond the trading floor and gave rise to modern, electronic trading.
Flooded with redemption requests from his clients, Madoff could not keep the scam going any longer. On Dec. Madoff had hoped to buy some time to distribute hundreds of millions of dollars in bonuses to employees, then wind down the firm. But Mark and Andrew, who were senior managers in the firm's trading operation — which operated separately from the fraudulent advisory business — would have none of it, and alerted authorities on the spot. A day later, on Dec. On March 12, , Madoff pleaded guilty to 11 federal crimes and admitted to operating the largest private Ponzi scheme in history.
In court, he insisted that it was all his idea — that his family knew nothing — even though his wife, Ruth, had once kept the books, his sons were senior officers, and his younger brother, Peter, was chief compliance officer. Charles Spada, an attorney for Peter Madoff, declined to comment Wednesday. But a trustee appointed to track down funds for investors did not buy it. Irving H. Picard sued dozens of people and entities, including Madoff's family members, alleging they either knew about the fraud or turned a blind eye, while reaping millions of dollars in benefits.
For older son Mark, the suspicion was too much. In , two years to the day of his father's arrest, he became the third suicide linked to the fraud. Four years later, Andrew died of lymphoma at age Picard eventually reached settlements with the sons' estates, and with Ruth Madoff, who has continued to deny any knowledge of the fraud, and is reportedly living modestly in Connecticut.
In the end, in addition to Madoff, more than a dozen individuals, including Peter Madoff, were convicted of federal crimes, but none of the others was accused of knowing about the fraud.
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