The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust
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Authors: Diana B. Henriques,Pam Ward
Tags: #True Crime, #Swindlers and Swindling, #Ponzi Schemes, #Criminals & Outlaws, #Commercial Crimes, #Biography & Autobiography, #White Collar Crime, #Hoaxes & Deceptions
For my colleagues at
The New York Times
,
yesterday, today, and tomorrow;
and for Larry,
forever
The Madoff Family
Bernie Madoff
, founder of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities
Ruth Madoff
(née Alpern), his wife
Mark Madoff
, their elder son, born 1964
Andrew Madoff
, their younger son, born 1966
Peter Madoff
, Bernie Madoff’s younger brother
Shana Madoff
, his daughter
Roger Madoff
, his son
Ralph Madoff
, Bernie Madoff’s father
Sylvia Madoff
(née Muntner), Bernie Madoff’s mother
At Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities
Eleanor Squillari
, Bernie Madoff’s secretary
Irwin Lipkin
, Madoff’s first employee
Daniel Bonventre
, the director of operations
Frank DiPascali
, the manager on the seventeenth floor
Jerome O’Hara
, a computer programmer
George Perez
, his coworker and officemate
David Kugel
, an arbitrage trader
The Accountants
Saul Alpern
, Ruth Madoff’s father
Frank Avellino
, Alpern’s colleague and successor
Michael Bienes
, Avellino’s longtime partner
Jerome Horowitz
, an early Alpern partner and Madoff’s accountant
David Friehling
, Horowitz’s son-in-law and successor
Paul Konigsberg
, a Manhattan accountant
Richard Glantz
, a lawyer and the son of an early Alpern associate
Individual Investors and “Introducers”
Martin J. Joel Jr.
, a stockbroker in New York
Norman F. Levy
, a real estate tycoon in New York
Carl Shapiro
, a philanthropist in Palm Beach
Robert Jaffe
, his son-in-law
Jeffry Picower
, a secretive New York investor
William D. Zabel
, his longtime attorney
Mendel “Mike” Engler
, a stockbroker in Minneapolis
Howard Squadron
, a prominent Manhattan attorney
Fred Wilpon
, an owner of the New York Mets baseball team
Major U.S. Feeder Funds
Stanley Chais
, a Beverly Hills investor
Jeffrey Tucker
, a cofounder of Fairfield Greenwich Group
Walter Noel Jr.
, his founding partner
Mark McKeefry
, the general counsel at Fairfield Greenwich
Amit Vijayvergiya
, the chief risk officer at Fairfield Greenwich
J. Ezra Merkin
, a prominent Wall Street investor
Victor Teicher
, his former adviser
Sandra Manzke
, a pension fund specialist
Robert I. Schulman
, her onetime partner
International Investors and Promoters
Jacques Amsellem
, a French investor
Albert Igoin
, a secretive financial adviser in Paris
Patrick Littaye
, a French hedge fund manager
René-Thierry Magon de la Villehuchet
, his partner
Sonja Kohn
, a prominent Austrian banker and founder of Bank Medici
Carlo Grosso
, a manager of the Kingate fund, based in London
Rodrigo Echenique Gordillo
, a Banco Santander director in Madrid
Cohmad Securities
Maurice J. “Sonny” Cohn
, Bernie Madoff’s partner in this firm
Marcia Beth Cohn
, his daughter
Whistle-blowers
Michael Ocrant
, a writer for an elite hedge fund newsletter
Erin Arvedlund
, a freelance writer for
Barron’s
magazine
Harry Markopolos
, a quantitative analyst in Boston
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Christopher Cox
, chairman from August 2005 to January 2009
Mary Schapiro
, his successor as chairman
H. David Kotz
, their independent inspector general
Grant Ward
, a regional official in Boston
Ed Manion
, his coworker
Lori Richards
, a senior official in Washington
Eric Swanson
, a lawyer in Washington
Andrew Calamari
, a senior regional official in New York
Meaghan Cheung
, a lawyer in the New York office
Simona Suh
, her colleague
William David Ostrow
, an examiner in the New York office
Peter Lamore
, his colleague
Lee S. Richards III
, a New York lawyer in private practice, appointed as receiver for Madoff’s firm
Family Lawyers
Ira Lee “Ike” Sorkin
, defense lawyer for Madoff
Peter Chavkin
, lawyer for Ruth Madoff
Martin Flumenbaum
, lawyer for Mark and Andrew Madoff
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Ted Cacioppi
, special agent
B. J. Kang
, his colleague
Federal Prosecutors in Manhattan
Preet Bharara
, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York
William F. Johnson
, chief of the Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force
Marc Litt
, the lead prosecutor in the Madoff case
Lisa Baroni
, his colleague
Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC)
Irving H. Picard
, the trustee for the Madoff bankruptcy case
David J. Sheehan
, his chief legal counsel at Baker & Hostetler
Federal Judges in Manhattan
Louis L. Stanton
, a district court judge
Burton R. Lifland
, a bankruptcy court judge
Denny Chin
, a district court judge
Richard J. Sullivan
, a district court judge
Victims’ Advocates
Helen Davis Chaitman
, a lawyer in New Jersey
Lawrence R. Velvel
, a law school dean in Massachusetts