Everyone. This is bloomberg surveillance and im Francine Lacqua in london. We will be speaking to jack straw, one of the three people serving in the candidate from 1997 to 2010. We talk brexit and trade. Youre meantime, this is market. Equities seem to be on a tear. Stocks in europe are a little bit mixed, but the euro holding onto gains. We saw catalonias president stepping down from the immediate declaration of independence in spain. The dollar, drifting down a little bit. Oil rising above 51 a barrel, as opec pretty good. The nikkei 225 rising to the highest in almost 21 years, following the Dow Jones Industrial average, that touched a fresh record high yesterday. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Plans to donald trump make changes to his tax plan within the next few weeks without giving any details. At the same time, he dismissed concerns that his public spat would dismiss an overhaul. Independent analysts suggest it would raise taxes for 30 of people, making betw
Pull off this scam today . Given the same security measures . Yep. Easily. Piece of cake. Sam eshaghoffs scam was getting paid thousands of dollars to take the s. A. T. Test for other students. He did it at least 16 times, scoring in the 97th percentile of the country. I would call him an academic gun for hire. Thats what he was. Welcome to 60 minutes on cnbc. Im bob simon. In this edition, we examine two very different kinds of fraud. Bernie madoffs wife and surviving son break their silence about wall streets most infamous criminal. And later, we visit a high school con man who figured the best way to make the grade was to cheat the s. A. T. S but first, in december 2008, Bernie Madoff confessed to running a 65billion ponzi scheme, the largest financial fraud in history. While madoff is serving 150 years in prison, his family had to deal with the consequences of his crimes. His wife ruth divested of most of her great wealth and derided by a suspicious world. Their son mark dead, driv
His wife ruth. I trusted him. And son andrew. Thats who i am. My name is madoff. And ill live with that for the rest of my life. Speak out about crime, guilt, suicide. Mr. Madoff, what do you have to say for yourself . And the day bernie admitted to committing the largest financial fraud in history. And he said, i have a confession to make. Ive been running a ponzi scheme. [ticking] do you think you could pull off this scam today . Given the same security measures . Yep. Easily. Piece of cake. Sam eshaghoffs scam was getting paid thousands of dollars to take the s. A. T. Test for other students. He did it at least 16 times, scoring in the 97th percentile of the country. I would call him an academic gun for hire. Thats what he was. Welcome to 60 minutes on cnbc. Im bob simon. In this edition, we examine two very different kinds of fraud. Bernie madoffs wife and surviving son break their silence about wall streets most infamous criminal. And later, we visit a high school con man who figu
To committing the largest financial fraud in history. And he said, i have a confession to make. Ive been running a ponzi scheme. [ticking] do you think you could pull off this scam today . Given the same security measures . Yep. Easily. Piece of cake. Sam eshaghoffs scam was getting paid thousands of dollars to take the s. A. T. Test for other students. He did it at least 16 times, scoring in the 97th percentile of the country. I would call him an academic gun for hire. Thats what he was. Welcome to 60 minutes on cnbc. Im bob simon. In this edition, we examine two very different kinds of fraud. Bernie madoffs wife and surviving son break their silence about wall streets most infamous criminal. And later, we visit a high school con man who figured the best way to make the grade was to cheat the s. A. T. S but first, in december 2008, Bernie Madoff confessed to running a 65billion ponzi scheme, the largest financial fraud in history. While madoff is serving 150 years in prison, his famil
And the day bernie admitted to committing the largest financial fraud in history. And he said, i have a confession to make. Ive been running a ponzi scheme. [ticking] do you think you could pull off this scam today . Given the same security measures . Yep. Easily. Piece of cake. Sam eshaghoffs scam was getting paid thousands of dollars to take the s. A. T. Test for other students. He did it at least 16 times, scoring in the 97th percentile of the country. I would call him an academic gun for hire. Thats what he was. Welcome to 60 minutes on cnbc. Im bob simon. In this edition, we examine two very different kinds of fraud. Bernie madoffs wife and surviving son break their silence about wall streets most infamous criminal. And later, we visit a high school con man who figured the best way to make the grade was to cheat the s. A. T. S but first, in december 2008, Bernie Madoff confessed to running a 65billion ponzi scheme, the largest financial fraud in history. While madoff is serving 15