Bernard Madoff: the inside story of an obsessive control freak who fooled the world

Reality finally caught up with Bernie Madoff on December 11, 2008. Arrested at the $7m Manhattan penthouse he shared with his wife, Ruth, the man who had run a decade long pyramid scheme made an emotional confession to his sons that “it’s all just one big lie”. Securities and Exchange Commission investigators spoke of “a stunning fraud that appears to be of epic proportions”. Their suspicions proved correct. More in The Telegraph here.