By now we all know that Bernard Madoff has overtaken Charles Ponzi as the new king of the pyramid scheme. The magnitude of Madoff's losses and the scale of his fraud make Ponzi look as if he was trading in peanuts. Indeed, it's not possible to invert this pyramid without Madoff always emerging as the lead villain in the never-ending saga of financial fraud.
Among Madoff's many victims was Elie Wiesel -- both his Foundation for Humanity (http://www.eliewieselfoundation.org/) and...
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