What Happened To All The Money From The Bernard Madoff Ponzi Scheme?
Where did it all go?
Where did it all go?
Okay, so this guy takes 50 BILLION dollars from investors. Where did the money go? He couldn’t have spent all of it, could he? The money must actually BE somewhere. Does anyone understand what a “Ponzi” scam is? This story is confusing to me. Why can’t he give back [...]
Did he send it to an offshore account, Swiss bank?
Redemptions from Madoff’s securities were, as others have noted, paid out of the new investments from other victims. The interesting question is, “What happens now?” You might think that those people who were lucky enough to withdraw their money before the fraud was exposed might be off the hook. But bankruptcy law [...]
How can you be arrested for swindling billions and then be sentenced without a trial?
Was what happened caused by too low of prices in the housing market? Or does that not apply to all of them? Did any of them have to do with fraud or bad accounting? And why or why not should the government bail them out? (I know they all ready bailed [...]
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