He founded the Wall Street firm Bernard L. Excerpt: The Madoff investment scandal broke in December 2008, when former NASDAQ chairman Bernard Madoff admitted that the wealth management arm of his business was an elaborate Ponzi scheme. Forte, Double Shah, Afinsa, Success University, Greater Ministries International, GKO-OFZ, Charis Johnson, Bishop, Baldwin, Rewald, Dillingham and Wong, Kubus scheme, Rick Koerber, Investors Overseas Service, Steven Hoffenberg, James Nicholson, Lyonya Golubkov, Angelo Haligiannis, T5PC, Dona Branca, Allied Deals Inc., Equinox, Tenka Ikka no Kai, Andrew Duncan, James M. Grupo Holding S.A., Samuel Israel III, Gary Sorenson, Petters Group Worldwide, Joseph S. Friehling, Ron Rewald, MMM, Studiotraffic, John McNamara, High-yield investment program, K1 fund, Kevin Foster, Caritas, Valerie Red-Horse, 1997 rebellion in Albania, Operation Broken Trust, Earl Jones, Make Money Fast, USA Capital, Bayou Hedge Fund Group, Cherry Shares, Swiss Mutual Fund, Stanley Chais, World Plus, D.M.G. Ward, Robert Douglas Hartmann, Solomon Dwek, Reed Slatkin, Stock Generation, Yilishen Tianxi Group, David G. Ezra Merkin, Allen Stanford, Barry Minkow, Lou Pearlman, Arthur Nadel, Stanford Financial Group, Holiday Magic, Tom Petters, U-Vistract, Danny Pang, Laura Pendergest-Holt, Franchise fraud, FundAmerica, Bernard Cornfeld, Frank DiPascali, WinCapita, Foundation for New Era Philanthropy, Matrix scheme, G12 Vision, Joel N. Rothstein, List of Ponzi schemes, Norman Hsu, J. Chapters: Pyramid scheme, Ponzi scheme, Charles Ponzi, Madoff investment scandal, Bernard Madoff, Scott W.

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