{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"Bernard Madoff: The Biggest Lie on Wall Street - Part 1: The Quiet Start","description":"Bernard Madoff did not begin as a monster. He began as a local man with a calm voice, a real business, and a name that Wall Street learned to trust. That is what makes this story so unsettling. The biggest lie did not arrive with smoke and fireworks. It started with paperwork, patience, and a small first step that looked harmless.\r\n\r\nBernard Madoff was born in Queens in nineteen thirty-eight, the son of a plumber. He grew up in New York’s outer boroughs and found his way into Wall Street’s machinery with a gambler’s instinct and a technician’s patience. He understood the city’s nervous habits. He understood how money moved. More important, he understood how confidence moved. In finance, people often trust what looks organized. They trust the man who seems steady, the firm that seems established, the name they keep hearing from other people.\r\n\r\nLearn more at: https://thefraudarchive.com/fraud/madoff-ponzi","author_name":"The Archive Network"}