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Narrated by:
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Michael David Axtell
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Bernie Madoff
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Richard Behar
About this listen
Fifteen years after Bernie Madoff’s arrest, renowned investigative journalist Richard Behar delivers the definitive account of history’s largest, longest-running financial fraud—featuring audio excerpts from archival interviews with Bernie Madoff from prison.
Some $68 billion evaporated during Bernie Madoff’s epic confidence game. Two people were driven to suicide in the wake of the Ponzi Scheme’s exposure. Others went to prison. But there has never been a satisfying accounting for how Bernie got away with so much, for so long. Until now.
Richard Behar’s relationship with Madoff began in 2011 with a simple email request from the inmate. By the time Madoff died in 2021, he had sent Behar more than 300 emails and dozens of handwritten letters, participated in some fifty phone conversations, and sat for three in-person jailhouse interviews—a level of access provided to no other reporter. Behar also established relationships with hundreds of regulators, prosecutors, FBI agents, investors, Wall Street experts, ex-employees of Madoff’s, family members, school classmates, and others.
The result is the final word on the criminal behind history’s most enduring fraud—and on those who believed him, covered for him, or locked him up. Behar illuminates not only the fraud’s origins—decades earlier than Madoff claimed in his confession—but also the complicity of investors, Wall Street insiders, family members, and some of the largest banks in the US and Europe.
Shocking, infuriating, riveting (and at times absurdly funny), Madoff shows us how Bernie ensnared thousands of investors. As Behar’s dogged reporting over the last fifteen years makes clear, however, there aren’t many innocents left standing by the end of this tale. Just about everyone involved is guilty, at a minimum, of humanity’s most consistent weakness: greed.
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Madoff with the Money is a deeply disturbing portrait of Bernie Madoff based on dozens of exclusive, news-making interviews. From the values Madoff was taught growing up in the working class town of Laurelton, Queens to his high-life on Wall Street and the super-rich enclaves of Palm Beach and the French Riviera, best-selling author Jerry Oppenheimer follows the disgraced money manager's trail as he works his way up the social and economic ladder, and eventually scams his trusting clients in a $50 billion Ponzi scheme.
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Billion Dollar Whale
- By: Bradley Hope, Tom Wright
- Narrated by: Will Collyer
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
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Now a number-one international best seller, Billion Dollar Whale is "an epic tale of white-collar crime on a global scale" (Publishers Weekly), revealing how a young social climber from Malaysia pulled off one of the biggest heists in history. In 2009, a chubby, mild-mannered graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business named Jho Low set in motion a fraud of unprecedented gall and magnitude—one that would come to symbolize the next great threat to the global financial system.
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Couldn’t stop listening!
- By N Lane on 10-05-18
By: Bradley Hope, and others
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The Devil at His Elbow
- Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty
- By: Valerie Bauerlein
- Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed, Valerie Bauerlein
- Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
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Power, privilege, and blood—this is the definitive and thrilling true story of Alex Murdaugh’s violent downfall, from a veteran Wall Street Journal reporter who has become an authority on the case. Through masterful research and cinematic writing, The Devil at His Elbow is a transporting journey through Alex’s life, the night of the murders, and the investigation that culminated in a trial that held tens of millions spellbound. With her stunning insights and fearless instinct for the truth, Bauerlein uncovers layers of the Murdaugh murder case that have not been told.
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Poisoned by woke
- By Amazon Customer on 12-20-24
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Bad Blood
- Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
- By: John Carreyrou
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
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In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the next Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup “unicorn” promised to revolutionize the medical industry with its breakthrough device, which performed the whole range of laboratory tests from a single drop of blood. Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos sold shares in a fundraising round that valued the company at more than $9 billion, putting Holmes’s worth at an estimated $4.5 billion.
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Extreme retaliation against former employees
- By LEE on 05-29-18
By: John Carreyrou
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The Madman's Hotel
- By: Niall Breslin
- Narrated by: Niall Breslin
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
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In the heart of the rolling green hills of Ireland a huge abandoned psychiatric asylum looms large and holds its secrets close, until one family fights to find the truth about their long lost great grandmother. Presented by Irish celebrity and mental health advocate Niall Breslin - this is the untold story of the quest to find patient Julia Leonard, alongside many others, who came to die in St Loman’s Hospital near Dublin. Why was Julia in St Loman’s? And what happened to her and other patients who found themselves within its walls?
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Heart felt Remembrance
- By RosaInGlousta on 11-05-24
By: Niall Breslin
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Going Infinite
- The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
- By: Michael Lewis
- Narrated by: Michael Lewis
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
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When Michael Lewis first met him, Sam Bankman-Fried was the world’s youngest billionaire and crypto’s Gatsby. CEOs, celebrities, and leaders of small countries all vied for his time and cash after he catapulted, practically overnight, onto the Forbes billionaire list. Who was this rumpled guy in cargo shorts and limp white socks, whose eyes twitched across Zoom meetings as he played video games on the side?
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really expected more rigor from Michael Lewis
- By Wowhello on 10-04-23
By: Michael Lewis
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- Lynette Wood
- 10-29-24
Fascinating
Fascinating with great details. I couldn’t stop listening. Easy to listen to. I especially liked the ending.
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- Sarah
- 07-29-24
Great additional info on this man.
Well written and organized to help understand (as much as we can) about how the scheme happened. Well worth the listen.
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- Jeffrey R. Alexander
- 12-22-24
Thoroughly debunked madoff lie that ponzi started in 90s
Very good research - methodically reveals that Bernie lied until the day he died. The interviews themselves are too credulous (partly strategic to keep him talking, I’m sure). But overall definitely added to my understanding of madoff.
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- Peter Jalilie
- 07-28-24
Spectacularly written, honest, and through
This project is about as through and definitive as one could hope for. Incredibly intriguing and honest look into the life one of the most complex fraudulent human beings in human history. I highly recommend this work as a must read.
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- M. Jasper
- 03-10-25
The phone interviews.
Interesting take on the story. Hard to understand when he was being truthful and if he ever felt remorse for what he did.
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- Thomas D. Rudd
- 08-30-24
Good book
Lots of information. My one complaint is I didn’t get this book to hear about someone’s opinion on Trump. Trumps got issues but I didn’t buy this to book to hear about him.
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- Robert Corby
- 10-08-24
99% solid
Pretty good until he starts talking about Trump at the very end. Silly and completely unnecessary.
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-21-24
The amount of nothingness. May have been better had I not known so much about the story before listening.
Disappointed that author took the story of Madoff to advertise his political beliefs. Not sure why Trump needed to be the focus at the end. Pretty sure psychopath would describe most politicians, but found the Trump shots distracting and unnecessary.
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- CB2
- 09-26-24
Nothing new here
A lot of rehashing what was covered in prior articles and the movie and miniseries- the parts about the 4 horsemen would have been interesting if it didn’t drag on so long repetitively and be generally unsubstantiated. Don’t know why the author felt the desire to publish this so long after the events as it is just more of the same.
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- Bruce D. Jaffe
- 10-04-24
Behar Goes Deep
Hearing Bernie Madoff’s own words, along with Behar’s depth of research, makes this book on the Madoff Ponzi a must read and listen.
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