Bernie Madoff and the Crisis

A sociological deconstruction of the public response to Bernie Madoff and his crimes.Bernie Madoff''s arrest could not have come at a more darkly poetic moment. Economic upheaval had plunged America into a horrid recession. Then, on December 11, 2008, Madoff''s $65 billion Ponzi scheme came to light. A father turned in by his sons; a son who took his own life; another son dying and estranged from ...