The Believers: How America Fell for Bernie Madoff's $50 Billion Investment Scam

by Adam LeBor

Book Overview

How America fell for financier Bernie Madoff's $65 billion investment scam. It was luxurious Palm Beach, by the manicured lawns and Olympic-sized swimming pool, that financier Bernard Madoff ravaged the world of philanthropy and high society he had strived so hard to join, vaporising the assets of charities, foundations and individuals that had trusted him with their funds. It seems nothing was sacrosanct to Madoff, possibly the greatest con-man in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0753827433
• ISBN13: 9780753827437
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Phoenix
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.0" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary