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
Pyramid of Sahure stood high with a base of and a slope of 56°. Its inner core comprised two steps of roughly hewn limestone blocks clad with fine Tura limestone. This construction technique, with a low-quality core masonry, meant a considerable saving of labor at the time of the construction. However, as the outer casing of pyramid fell victim to stone robbers throughout the millennia, the loosely assembled core material was progressively exposed and fared much worse over time than that of the 4th dynasty pyramids. Thus, today the cult pyramid is ruined beyond recognition. The pyramid courtyard was accessed either from the