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The film includes interviews with Markopolos and fellow investigators Frank Casey, Neil Chelo, Michael Ocrant, and Gaytri Kachroo over how they pursued and exposed Bernie Madoff and his elaborate ponzi scheme for bilking investors out of $50 billion.
In 2008, , a Wall Street fund manager and one of the most recognizable names within the business for his successful track record, gave himself up to authorities in operating what was arguably the largest Ponzi scheme ever orchestrated, defrauding his investor organizations and individuals to the tune of $50 billion US. For close to the previous ten years behind the scenes, who would become known as the Madoff whistle-blowers, with most of the proverbial heavy lifting in the matter carried out by , worked to expose what Madoff was doing as fraud. Working for Rampart, a rival firm based in Boston, Markopolos was initially tasked to develop a fund, using Madoffs successful one as a benchmark. Within minutes of reviewing Madoffs fund, Markopolos knew that Madoff was doing something illegal, probably a Ponzi scheme, to achieve the returns he was boasting, not yet realizing the reach and the value of the fraud. As Markopolos and the others gathered irrefutable evidence to expose Madoff, they ran into one roadblock after another in making the story public, which led to the question: why were the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the various major financial media outlets sitting on the story, despite they being provided such evidence by Markopolos. Knowing that if people behind Madoff knew what he was doing, Markopolos, for several years, feared for his life and the life of his young family. As an epilogue to the story, Markopolos ponders whether the ten year struggle was worth it seeing that in the end no one was saved, with interviews with many of the proverbial small Joe and Jane Public investors interspersed throughout this film, they stating how Madoff ruined their lives in they just trusting him.
Bernie Madoff
Self
Frank Casey
Self - Interviewee
Gaytri Kachroo
Self - Interviewee
Harry Markopolos
Self - Interviewee
Neil Chelo
Self - Interviewee
Michael Ocrant
Self - Interviewee
Ronnie Sue Ambrosino
Self - Investor Interviewee
Domenic Ambrosino
Self - Investor Interviewee
Harry Bates
Self
Ellen Bernfeld
Self
Michael Devita
Self - Investor Interviewee
Elaine Drosos
Self
Maureen Ebel
Self
Cynthia Friedman
Self - Investor Interviewee
Richard Friedman
Self - Investor Interviewee
David Kotz
Self
Faith Markopolos
Self
Louis Markopolis
Self
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