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Authors: Diana B. Henriques,Pam Ward

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The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust

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For my colleagues at
The New York Times
,
yesterday, today, and tomorrow;
and for Larry,
forever

Contents

Cast of Characters

The Madoff Family

Bernie Madoff
, founder of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities

Ruth Madoff
(née Alpern), his wife

Mark Madoff
, their elder son, born 1964

Andrew Madoff
, their younger son, born 1966

 

Peter Madoff
, Bernie Madoff’s younger brother

Shana Madoff
, his daughter

Roger Madoff
, his son

 

Ralph Madoff
, Bernie Madoff’s father

Sylvia Madoff
(née Muntner), Bernie Madoff’s mother

At Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities

Eleanor Squillari
, Bernie Madoff’s secretary

Irwin Lipkin
, Madoff’s first employee

Daniel Bonventre
, the director of operations

Frank DiPascali
, the manager on the seventeenth floor

Jerome O’Hara
, a computer programmer

George Perez
, his coworker and officemate

David Kugel
, an arbitrage trader

The Accountants

Saul Alpern
, Ruth Madoff’s father

Frank Avellino
, Alpern’s colleague and successor

Michael Bienes
, Avellino’s longtime partner

Jerome Horowitz
, an early Alpern partner and Madoff’s accountant

David Friehling
, Horowitz’s son-in-law and successor

Paul Konigsberg
, a Manhattan accountant

Richard Glantz
, a lawyer and the son of an early Alpern associate

Individual Investors and “Introducers”

Martin J. Joel Jr.
, a stockbroker in New York

Norman F. Levy
, a real estate tycoon in New York

Carl Shapiro
, a philanthropist in Palm Beach

Robert Jaffe
, his son-in-law

Jeffry Picower
, a secretive New York investor

William D. Zabel
, his longtime attorney

Mendel “Mike” Engler
, a stockbroker in Minneapolis

Howard Squadron
, a prominent Manhattan attorney

Fred Wilpon
, an owner of the New York Mets baseball team

Major U.S. Feeder Funds

Stanley Chais
, a Beverly Hills investor

Jeffrey Tucker
, a cofounder of Fairfield Greenwich Group

Walter Noel Jr.
, his founding partner

Mark McKeefry
, the general counsel at Fairfield Greenwich

Amit Vijayvergiya
, the chief risk officer at Fairfield Greenwich

J. Ezra Merkin
, a prominent Wall Street investor

Victor Teicher
, his former adviser

Sandra Manzke
, a pension fund specialist

Robert I. Schulman
, her onetime partner

International Investors and Promoters

Jacques Amsellem
, a French investor

Albert Igoin
, a secretive financial adviser in Paris

Patrick Littaye
, a French hedge fund manager

René-Thierry Magon de la Villehuchet
, his partner

Sonja Kohn
, a prominent Austrian banker and founder of Bank Medici

Carlo Grosso
, a manager of the Kingate fund, based in London

Rodrigo Echenique Gordillo
, a Banco Santander director in Madrid

Cohmad Securities

Maurice J. “Sonny” Cohn
, Bernie Madoff’s partner in this firm

Marcia Beth Cohn
, his daughter

Whistle-blowers

Michael Ocrant
, a writer for an elite hedge fund newsletter

Erin Arvedlund
, a freelance writer for
Barron’s
magazine

Harry Markopolos
, a quantitative analyst in Boston

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

Christopher Cox
, chairman from August 2005 to January 2009

Mary Schapiro
, his successor as chairman

H. David Kotz
, their independent inspector general

Grant Ward
, a regional official in Boston

Ed Manion
, his coworker

Lori Richards
, a senior official in Washington

Eric Swanson
, a lawyer in Washington

Andrew Calamari
, a senior regional official in New York

Meaghan Cheung
, a lawyer in the New York office

Simona Suh
, her colleague

William David Ostrow
, an examiner in the New York office

Peter Lamore
, his colleague

Lee S. Richards III
, a New York lawyer in private practice, appointed as receiver for Madoff’s firm

Family Lawyers

Ira Lee “Ike” Sorkin
, defense lawyer for Madoff

Peter Chavkin
, lawyer for Ruth Madoff

Martin Flumenbaum
, lawyer for Mark and Andrew Madoff

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

Ted Cacioppi
, special agent

B. J. Kang
, his colleague

Federal Prosecutors in Manhattan

Preet Bharara
, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York

William F. Johnson
, chief of the Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force

Marc Litt
, the lead prosecutor in the Madoff case

Lisa Baroni
, his colleague

Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC)

Irving H. Picard
, the trustee for the Madoff bankruptcy case

David J. Sheehan
, his chief legal counsel at Baker & Hostetler

Federal Judges in Manhattan

Louis L. Stanton
, a district court judge

Burton R. Lifland
, a bankruptcy court judge

Denny Chin
, a district court judge

Richard J. Sullivan
, a district court judge

Victims’ Advocates

Helen Davis Chaitman
, a lawyer in New Jersey

Lawrence R. Velvel
, a law school dean in Massachusetts

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