I have posted many times on the Madoff story, including
Madoff scoffing at the banks (AP), Madoff says the banks HAD to have known (NYTimes), More Madoff, Indirectly and the original story @ My name is Bernie Madoff, and I'm a cheat! WOW!. The 'story' continues, sometimes in more ways than one. FT has another m,ost interesting piece where Bernie is making the story spin a different direction - that he just might be the most successful money manager of all time. Everyone has their own individual perspective, right?
From behind bars, Madoff spins his story (FT)
By David Gelles and Gillian Tett
Published: April 8 2011 17:04 | Last updated: April 8 2011 17:04
Madoff in New York in March 2009, shortly before pleading guilty to fraud charges
We are cruising through North Carolina on a foggy morning in late March, heading up to its rural north. Our route takes us through swampland shrouded in a thick mist; spruce trees and an occasional pink dogwood line the interstate. Butner, population 6,391, is our destination.
The town is home to a vast federal prison complex that includes a hospital, a minimum security unit and two medium security facilities. Since July 14 2009, arguably the most notorious inmate at FCI Butner Medium I has been Bernard Lawrence Madoff, the disgraced New York financier who orchestrated a $65bn Ponzi scheme, among the biggest financial frauds of all time. He is prisoner 61727-054.
When the Madoff scandal broke in 2008, a Financial Times reporter learnt that two acquaintances of his were close to the Madoffs and passed along an invitation for any member of the family to speak with the paper. For more than a year, there was silence. Then, early last December, the reporter received an e-mail from Madoff himself. Following sporadic correspondence, and at very short notice, a message came from the prison: Madoff would meet with the FT.
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