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For other people with the same surname, see Madoff (surname). For the miniseries, see Madoff (miniseries). Bernard Lawrence Bernie Madoff (/ËmeÉªdÉf/; born April 29, 1938) is an American fraudster and a former stockbroker, investment advisor, and financier. He is the former non-executive chairman of the NASDAQ stock market, and the admitted operator of a Ponzi scheme that is considered the largest financial fraud in U.S. history.
Well, Bernie, I mean, he didn't have anything that really made money, says Lou Pearlman by phone about Wall Street pariah Bernie Madoff, sounding level-headed and upbeat in his first prison interview since his 2009 incarceration in Texas at the low-security Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Texarkana.Madoff is serving a 150-year sentence for a Ponzi scheme worth $18 billion, the costliest in U.S. history.). PHOTOS: From Boy Band Mogul to Convict (via THR). He didn't have any real way to make money, Pearlman repeats, but I had the music. The Backstreet Boys each made well over $50 million apiece.