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Madoff Victims, Five Years the Wiser
Joanne and Burt Meerow, retirees in West Dover, Vt., were among Madoff s victims.Credit.Caleb Kenna for The New York Times
Dec. 7, 2013
It was the first global Ponzi scheme a slow-motion crime wave that began in the Manhattan offices of a stockbroker named Bernard L. Madoff, spread to wealthy enclaves in Palm Beach, Fla., and Southern California, and reached as far as the Persian Gulf. It carried a breathtaking price: $64.8 billion in paper wealth and at least $17.5 billion in cash losses. Those affected ranged from carpenter-union pensioners to French aristocrats.
Early on Dec. 11, 2008, Mr. Madoff was arrested at his Manhattan penthouse. Within hours, the news reached his investors, leaving them stunned. In doctors’ offices, beauty salons, executive suites and living rooms they learned that all the money they thought was in their accounts invested through a trusted Wall Street statesman had vanished. ....

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