The Madoff Chronicles
Inside the Secret World of Bernie and Ruth
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5.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
After the news broke of Bernie Madoff's arrest on December 11, 2008, the facts were hard to grasp. Madoff claimed to have stolen fifty billion dollars; the sum seemed impossibly large. But of course it wasn't impossible. And that was only the beginning of the story. As chief investigative correspondent for ABC News, Brian Ross has been on the front lines of the Madoff scandal since the beginning. Throughout the course of his investigation, he and his team have achieved unequaled access to the investigators working to unravel Madoff's fraud, and have succeeded in cultivating sources deep within the walls of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities that no other journalist has reached.The result is an unparalleled, fly-on-the-wall view of a life of corrupted luxury and outrageous lies.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
ABC News correspondent Ross's book, originally published in 2009, is a good summary of the Bernie Madoff scandal for anyone who somehow missed the explosion of news reports following Madoff's arrest in December of 2008. Voice actor Cummings brings some oomph to this chronicle based on ABC's original research and reports. His dramatic handling of innumerable astonishing facts (e.g., that the SEC never caught on to the massive Madoff fraud) makes old news worth rehearing. Ross recounts the family and national saga that involved educational and philanthropic institutions as well as Wall Street, ruined innumerable wealthy families, and led to Madoff's 150-year jail term. The book's audio release coincides with a new TV series on Madoff's Ponzi scheme, but the book, published in 2009, offers little gossip about Ruth Madoff and misses out on developments such as Madoff's brother, Peter, given a 10-year sentence, his son Mark's suicide, and his son Andrew's death of cancer in 2014. A Kingswell paperback.
