Madoff

With shocking new details from Madoff himself

Fifteen years after Bernie Madoff's arrest, renowned investigative journalist Richard Behar delivers the definitive account of history's largest—and longest-running—financial fraud.

Madoff with the Money is a deeply disturbing portrait of Bernie Madoff based on dozens of exclusive, news-making interviews. From the values Madoff was taught growing up in the working class town of Laurelton, Queens to his high-life on Wall Street and the super-rich enclaves of Palm Beach and the French Riviera, bestselling author Jerry Oppenheimer follows the disgraced money manager's trail as he works his way up the social and economic ladder, and eventually scams his trusting clients in a $50 billion Ponzi scheme.

On Dec. 11, 2008, Bernard L. Madoff confessed that his vaunted investment business was actually a Ponzi scheme so colossal in volume and scope that it cost investors $65 billion. Overnight, Madoff became a criminal icon and the new poster child for Wall Street gall, greed and corruption. Through exclusive filmed interviews with those closest to Madoff's operation, veteran FRONTLINE correspondent Martin Smith unearths the details of this worldwide deception that lasted longer, reached wider and cut deeper than any other business scandal in history.