Madoff Chronicles by Brian Ross is a brilliant book, which chronicles the lavish lifestyle that Bernie Madoff had for decades while steeling the retirement savings of thousands.
The book is well written and is compelling, I found the research on the shallow side, but the book is still well written, This was a very good insight into the mind and family of this master minupulator and thief, The book is not big, but, it is a good read and pretty much gives you the whole Uncle Bernie story,
It is hard what to say about this guy except there is just no conscience here at all,
I think you will enjoy the book if for nothing else just to see what makes this guy and people like him tick,
I guess it boils down to , are thirty years of living like nobody else in the world can, worth being in prison foryears, or whats left of your life, like nobody wants.
If you get a chance to read it , probably on the reduced price shelf now, I would read it,
Again, if it looks too good to be true , it probably is This book is not really wellwritten and Brian Rose's sources seem a little sketchy.
This book was very factual with credible sources, This is a story is which I have seen the movie, TV interviews, and have read the books and infamous Vanity Fair article, I find it so fascinating of what was able to slip through the cracks and go unexposed for so many decades, Sure makes one wonder about the secrecy wrapped around the Fed, IRS and all monies handled by agencies such as the SEC and SDIC, Are we blindly riding on an even greater Ponzi scheme perpetrated by our government with the rising debt and all the calls for fair share redistribution of wealth.
A behind the scene look at greed, How could he have gotten away with it for so long Incompetence and complacency, Interesting audiobook about the whole scandal, but didn't learn anything new, However, I enjoyed the narrative but I could have done with less commentary from just the one secretary, it would have been better to hear from many more.
Fascinating. I don't know how he slept at night but he is a master of deceit, A gossipy little read that provides many more inside details about the Madoffs' lives and the inside workings of the firm than, say, Diana Henriques' book, Seems a little hurriedly written and with time perhaps could have been a little more polished to read like a classic true crime, Plus I really despise Brian Ross, the dean of Fake News, I don't speak "Wall Street" or high finance but was fascinated by the crime Bernie Madoff masterminded!
The Madoff Chronicles by Brian Ross is an amazing account of this incredible crime! It tells of the day/in day out activities of Bernie and his crew.
You will be on the edge of your seat every time the SEC stops by, and then leaves having found nothing of interest!
Ross, his sources and colleagues deliver the story in a manner that returns great dividends to those curious about how this could have happened, without getting caught!
Highly recommended! Really enjoyed the book.
Read it in one day and found it to be very informative and am looking forward to mini series on ABC The book is even more disgusting than the orginial trial.
Bernie and his wife Ruth should have been fed to the people he cheated out of their life savings, I can only imagine both of them being torn from limbtolimb, and I'm NOT sure that would have been justice! I thought this book would be fascinating and it wasn't.
Unfortunately Brian Ross wrote this book like a news report on television repeating, repeating and repeating, Fantastic super quick high level read on the Madoff scandal, Very interesting and astonishing the fraud wasn't discovered sooner, Also interesting to learn that he had no remorse, Disturbing story. Interesting story, but just a rehash of what was in the papers and on tv, No new information. Reads like a rush job to get out while the story is still hot, I could not put this book down once I picked it up, Not since I read "Into This Air" by John Krakauer has another book caught my interest in such a profound way, Thank you Brian Ross, you are an excellent writer, I read this after reading The End of Normal, I just had to know what happenedwhat he did and how he did it, Interesting to know how many people were in on it AND how many people who you'd have THOUGHT were in on it weren't, Even crazier how many people got close enough to sniff out his crimes years in advance but never followed through, They are almost as guilty as he is, This is the third book on Bernie Madoff that I have read, Each had its strengths. Mr. Ross's is that he manages to compress the sorry tale into a rather short, but gripping narrative, His book contained a bit more of a character study than the others, Because the author interviewed Mr, Madoff's lifelong and devoted secretary now disillusioned, it gave this book some behind the scene glimpses into the aftermath of the scandal, If you have to pick one on this subject, I highly recommend it, The collapse of Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme led to the instant evaporation ofbillion of wealth, The effects of Madoff's brazen fraud were felt most closely in New York and Palm Beach but the story was, and continues to be, front page news across the country.
Now, Brian Ross and his team of investigators shed an unyielding light onto Madoff's schemehow he got started, how he succeed for so long, who helped him, and who shielded him from early investigations.
From hard hitting revelations to fascinating anecdotes, this is an incisive and voyeuristic look into this first family of financial crime, This is both news and the most addictive kind of true crime reading, certain to appeal to both Madoff junkies and neophytes who will love a juicy story filled with intrigue, betrayal, and billions and billions of dollars.
The Madoff Chronicles includes a vast array of news and material that readers won't find anywhere else,
Contains a reproduction of Bernie's Little Black Book, The essential contacts contained here were always kept close at hand, This material has been extremely useful to the FBI investigation as they try to determine the roles that ther people played in the fraud, Ross has also secured Madoff's calendar for the past three years and other neverbeforeseen documents from inside the Madoff empire, straight from his desk,
Read key details of how Madoff carried out his scam and the revelation that he began the fraud from almost the first day,
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Hear how investigators tell believe that a billion dollars or more may have been hidden by Madoff,
Learn what was going on inside the Madoff apartment as Bernie prepared for his life in prison and Ruth prepared for life in selfimposed confinement.
Extensive cooperation by Madoff's personal assistant, Eleanor Squillari,
Extensive cooperation by Little Ricka former employee who used to fetch drugs for the Madoffs, Little Rick knows all their dirty secrets, We learn that Bernie also liked prostitutes, He kept his favorites' names and numbers in his Little Black Book,
Detailed chronicle of Madoff's conversations and movement inside and outside the office in the days before his arrest,
Contains incriminating connections between Madoff and certain members of the SEC,
Cooperation of childhood friends and neighbors has enabled Ross to write a compelling portrait of Bernie and Ruth in their early years,
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