EP30 - The Serpent on the Seventeenth Floor: Anatomy of the Madoff Illusion

For decades, Bernie Madoff was more than a financier; he was an institution, a paragon of Wall Street wisdom who delivered impossibly steady returns. But behind the veil of exclusivity and trust lay a fifty-billion-dollar lie, a financial black hole that would eventually consume thousands of lives. This is the story of how one man built the largest Ponzi scheme in history, and how the world chose not to see.