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I spent some time with erin in palm beach which was at the epicenter of the massive ponzi scheme talking about the frauds huge impact on the southern florida community. The heroine of elin hilderbrands novel, silver girl, published in 2011 by back bay books, is the wife of a madoff like schemer. Aug 10, 2009 an exclusive book excerpt from madoff postmortem too good to be true, penned by the barrons reporter who sounded the alarm in 2001. How to avoid the next bernie madoff book bites medium. The lies on every page tell how he used other peoples money in his hedge fund to commit the largest fraud in history. The rise and fall of bernie madoff erin arvedlund on. The rise and fall of bernie madoff ebook written by erin arvedlund. The rise and fall of bernie madoff audiobook by erin arvedlund. Indeed, even as madoff himself took responsibility for his massive crimes, even as he did us all a favor by. August 11, 2009 she was interviewed at the 32nd annual national press club.
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