Bernie Madoff

Bernard Lawrence Madoff (/ˈmeɪdɔːf/ MAY-doff; April 29, 1938 – April 14, 2021) was an American financier and convicted fraudster who ran the world's largest Ponzi scheme. He was at one time non-executive chairman of the NASDAQ stock market before being revealed as the operator of the largest financial fraud in history, worth about $64.8 billion.