Bernie Madoff -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Madoff
Bernard Lawrence "Bernie" Madoff (born April 29, 1938) is a former American
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 the history of the world.
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. Madoff said he
began the Ponzi scheme in the early 1990s. However, federal investigators
believe the fraud began as early as the 1970s, and those charged with
recovering the missing money believe the investment operation may never have
been legitimate. The amount missing from client accounts, including
fabricated gains, was almost $65 billion. The court-appointed trustee
estimated actual losses to investors of $18 billion. On June 29, 2009, he
was sentenced to 150 years in prison, the maximum allowed.
Stealing $65 billion is rather impressive and rather useless. You can't
really spend that much on yourself.
PS Madoff got away with it as long as he did because financially
sophisticated Jews kept quiet about his thieving - see
http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2011/04/is-observing-the-mesirah-prohibition-compatible-with-being-american/.
Jews call it mesirah -
http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2011/05/agudath-israel-mesirah-overrides-americas-laws/
The Mafia [ -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilian_Mafia ] call it Omerta -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omert%C3%A0