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For other people with the same surname, see Madoff (surname). For the miniseries, see Madoff (miniseries). Bernard Lawrence Bernie Madoff (/ËmeÉªdÉf/; born April 29, 1938) is an American fraudster and a former stockbroker, investment advisor, and financier. He is the former non-executive chairman of the NASDAQ stock market, and the admitted operator of a Ponzi scheme that is considered the largest financial fraud in U.S. history.
In the same vein, ABC is debuting its own true crime mini-series tonight, Madoff, a two-parter starring Richard Dreyfuss as Bernie Madoff, the financier who ran a billion-dollar Ponzi scheme, and Blythe Danner as his wife Ruth.