Bernie Madoff's $65 Billion Ponzi Scheme: The Biggest Scam Ever

For decades, Bernie Madoff's returns almost never went down. Month after month, year after year — ten, eleven percent, like clockwork. The smoothest returns on Wall Street. That impossible smoothness was the tell. This Fortune & Fall documentary tells the story entirely through the people who were there: the investors toasting the safest pair of hands in America, the broker pitching the miracle numbers, the junior accountant whose math said the trades couldn't exist, the panicked redemptions of December 2008, the night Bernie confessed to his sons that it was all one big lie — and the woman who finally asked the question nobody else would. All characters are dramatized composites. The events, figures, and the December 2008 confession are drawn from the documented public record of the Madoff scandal. Chapters: 0:00 Steady As a Clock 1:15 The Pitch 2:31 The Math Doesn't Add Up 3:47 December 2008 — The Panic 4:52 The Confession 6:17 The Investigator 7:30 The Arrest 8:32 Pennies This video is documentary storytelling for education and entertainment. It is not financial advice. Subscribe to Fortune & Fall — how fortunes are made, and how they vanish.