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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 120. Chapters: Victor Lustig, Charles Ponzi, Titanic Thompson, The Music Man, John Edward Robinson, Bernard Madoff, Scott W. Rothstein, Kevin Trudeau, Marc Stuart Dreier, Norman Hsu, Peter Foster, Allen Stanford, Lou Blonger, Soapy Smith, Lou Pearlman, Matthew Cox, Thomas Harman, Arthur Nadel, Frank Abagnale, Charles Sobhraj, Kenneth Lay, James Wilkinson, Gregor MacGregor, Tom Petters, Hungry Joe, Dorothea Puente, Semion Mogilevich, Clifford Irving, Danny Pang, Sante Kimes, Laura Pendergest-Holt, John George Haigh, Tom O'Brien, Great Oil Sniffer Hoax, Frank DiPascali, Philip Nolan, Robert Douglas Hartmann, Solomon Dwek, Steven Jay Russell, Archibald Hall, David G. Friehling, Ron Rewald, Charles Miller, Sholam Weiss, Kevin Foster, Tino De Angelis, James Hogue, Reed Waddell, Omid Tahvili, Gert Postel, Oscar Hartzell, William Avery Rockefeller, Maria Duval, Sergei Mavrodi, Joseph Weil, Stanley Chais, David "Race" Bannon, Canada Bill Jones, Billie Sol Estes, Michael Sabo, Samuel Israel III, Ronald Pellar, Gary Sorenson, Alan Conway, David Lamar, Henry More Smith, Ed "Big Ed" Burns, Nicky Arnstein, Dina Wein-Reis, Astafy Dolgopolov, George C. Parker, Robert Matthews, Louis Enricht, Henri Lemoine, Arthur Furguson, Barbara Erni, Ronald Griesacker, William McCloundy, William Thompson, Southport Sockman, Philip Arnold, James M. Davis, Randy Glass, Andrew Dexter, Jr.. Excerpt: Bernard Lawrence "Bernie" Madoff (pronounced; born April 29, 1938) is an American former stock broker, investment advisor, non-executive chairman of the NASDAQ stock market, and the admitted operator of what has been described as the largest Ponzi scheme in history. In March 2009, Madoff pleaded guilty to 11 federal felonies and admitted to turning his wealth management business into a massive Ponzi scheme that defrauded thousands of investors of billions of dollars...