Slate Money Criminals: Bernie Madoff
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4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers kick off Slate Money’s series on some of the biggest financial scandals in recent history. This week they are joined by Joe Berlinger, director of “Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street”. Berlinger tells the Slate Money crew about Madoff and how his infamous Ponzi scheme ultimately came tumbling down.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Bernie Madoff episode of Slate Money Criminals, your guide to the business and finance |
| 0:18.1 | criminals of recent history. |
| 0:20.8 | I'm Felixman of Axios. I'm here with Emily Peck of Axios. |
| 0:25.0 | Hello. And with Elizabeth Spires. |
| 0:29.0 | Hello. |
| 0:30.0 | And yes, we are covering one of the greatest financial criminals of them all, Mr. Bernard |
| 0:36.8 | Meadeoff, with the man who spent, how long Joe did you spend looking into this man and what he did? |
| 0:44.5 | I think we spent about a you know good 14 months making this show. |
| 0:48.8 | You are Joe Burlinger you made a four-part documentary series on Netflix all about |
| 0:56.6 | Bernie Madoff which is there right now and will be forever so yes who are you |
| 1:00.6 | introduce yourself I am a maker of documentaries and occasional scripted films. |
| 1:06.0 | I've done films like Brothers Keeper and Paradise Loss, |
| 1:09.0 | which helped lead to the release of the wrongfully convicted West Memphis 3. |
| 1:13.1 | I made a film about Metallica called some kind of monster |
| 1:17.4 | that some people know. |
| 1:19.6 | I've spent a lot of time doing serial killers of late Bundy tapes and the Ted Bundy movie with |
| 1:25.3 | Zach Efron. But I am secretly a finance geek, stock market geek, so I wanted to take on the Bernie Madoff story. |
| 1:36.4 | It's definitely an amazing story. |
| 1:38.0 | We are going to talk about what he did, how he did it, who he was aided and abetted by, who the winners were, who the losers were, |
| 1:46.0 | whether he's an evil genius, and it's all coming up on slate money criminals. |
| 1:56.0 | This episode is brought to you by Revolute. |
| 1:59.0 | Revolute is your perfect travel companion for all things money. |
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