Madoff investment scandal to enable the Irish regulator to uncover the fraud much earlier than late 2008 when he was finally arrested in New York. The scheme began to unravel in the fall of 2008, when the general market downturn accelerated. Madoff had previously come close to collapse in the second half of 2005 after Bayou Group, a group of hedge funds, was exposed as a Ponzi scheme that used a bogus accounting firm to misrepresent its performance. By November, investors had requested $105 million in redemptions, though Madoff's Chase account only had $13 million. Madoff only survived by moving money from his
The Pyramid (film) The Pyramid (film) The Pyramid is a 2014 American horror film directed by Grégory Levasseur, produced by Alexandre Aja, and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It is presented as found footage documenting the exploration of a recently discovered pyramid by a team of archaeologists. Written by Daniel Meersand and Nick Simon, the film stars Ashley Hinshaw, Denis O'Hare, James Buckley and Daniel Amerman. "The Pyramid" was released on December 5, 2014, and was negatively received by critics. During the 2012–13 uprisings in Egypt, an archaeological team discovers a vast pyramid buried below the surface. Further examinations of the pyramid's apex