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Bernard Madoff's Multibillion Dollar Ponzi Scheme

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Bernard Madoff was a stockbroker who used his own investment company to run a multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme. It was a family run business that his father in law, a retired CPA, helped him start up. On December 10, 2008, Madoff’s sons found out about this scheme and reported their father to the police. The next day, Bernard Madoff was arrested and charged with securities fraud. While Madoff is not the first person to create a Ponzi scheme – and unfortunately not the last – his accrued the most money in the entire history of Ponzi schemes.
A Ponzi scheme is a form of fraud in which belief in the success of a nonexistent enterprise is fostered by the payment of quick returns to the first investors from money invested by later investors. Madoff’s

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