Carmen Dell'Orefice Dell'Orefice. Madoff's fraudulent investment scheme drew on these funds to lure over 13,500 individuals and charities to his Ponzi scheme. She continued to socialize with the Madoffs after Levy's death. In December 2008 a 68-year-old friend, who invested her life savings with Madoff, telephoned Dell'Orefice to inform her that she too had been bankrupted by the scheme. Dell'Orefice said, "For the second time in my life, I've lost all of my life savings." Carmen Dell'Orefice Carmen Dell'Orefice (; born June 3, 1931) is an American model and actress. She is known within the fashion industry for being the world's oldest
Caritas (Ponzi scheme) An estimate of Romanian newspaper "România Liberă" gives the amount of money involved as 1.4 trillion lei or about 20% of the 1993 expenditures of the Romanian government of 6.6 trillion. "The New York Times" estimated the scheme attracted between $1 billion and $5 billion. The Romanian government banned pyramid schemes only after Caritas went bankrupt. The government received warnings about the scheme from several sources, included the Romanian Intelligence Service, which wrote a report in early 1993 (leaked to the press) and from Daniel Dăianu, the chief economist at the National Bank, who called it a fraud. As president