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Your Honor, for many years up until my arrest on December 11, 2008, I operated a Ponzi scheme through the investment advisory side of my business, Bernard L. Madoff Securities LLC, which was located here in Manhattan, New York at 885 Third Avenue. I am actually grateful for this first opportunity to publicly speak about my crimes, for which I am so deeply sorry and ashamed. As I engaged in my fraud, I knew what I was doing was wrong, indeed criminal. When I began the Ponzi scheme I believed it would end shortly and I would be able...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bernard Madoff's Full Statement to U.S. District Court | 3/12/2009 | See Source »

...Attorney's office has filed 11 counts against Madoff for his part in a decades-long Ponzi scheme, now estimated in court documents to amount to $64.8 billion, considered the largest in history. In fact, the new dollar amount cited in a Justice Department communication to Sorkin tallies the total size of the fraud, which dates back to the 1980s, at $170 billion, which includes money invested with Madoff, interest earned and payouts to investors as well as the value of things he bought for himself, like a yacht. "The charges reflect an extraordinary array of crimes committed by Bernard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Deal for Madoff, As Victims Prepare to Face Him in Court | 3/11/2009 | See Source »

...know you've really been Ponzi-ed when your investment guru has his own Caribbean island, a $10 million moated castle in Miami, a $100 million fleet of private jets and three or four "outside wives" along with his real one - and calls himself "Sir" despite never having been officially knighted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Spot a Ponzi Con Artist? Follow the Yachts | 3/6/2009 | See Source »

...course, the above describes the lavish world of financer R. Allen Stanford, a near Madoff who, according to the SEC, allegedly pulled off a 15-year Ponzi based on suckering investors with $8 billion or more of so-called high-yield certificates of deposit. According to the SEC, he has yet to hire a lawyer of record, and he could not be found for comment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Spot a Ponzi Con Artist? Follow the Yachts | 3/6/2009 | See Source »

...After news broke of Allen Stanford's alleged Ponzi, he went missing. Stanford was ultimately found by authorities with Andrea Stoelker, his girlfriend, at her home in Fredericksburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Spot a Ponzi Con Artist? Follow the Yachts | 3/6/2009 | See Source »

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