The Wizard of Lies

784 00:44:04,767 --> 00:44:07,268 Sir, nobody's going upstairs right now. 785 00:44:07,353 --> 00:44:08,645 I wanna see somebody in charge. 786 00:44:08,729 --> 00:44:10,605 Right now, I'm in charge. Who are you protecting? 787 00:44:10,689 --> 00:44:12,148 And you need to back up right now. 788 00:44:12,232 --> 00:44:13,524 We're talking about my fucking life savings! 789 00:44:13,609 --> 00:44:14,776 I told you right now! 790 00:44:14,902 --> 00:44:18,905 - Do you understand? Do you understand? - You need to back up right now, sir. 791 00:44:26,205 --> 00:44:27,455 Hello, Madoff. 792 00:44:27,539 --> 00:44:30,041 <i>I'm in the fucking lobby. I wanna come up.</i> 793 00:44:30,125 --> 00:44:33,836 Sir, I am not able to give you permission to come up here right now. 794 00:44:33,921 --> 00:44:36,047 <i>Where is my fucking money?</i> 795 00:44:36,131 --> 00:44:39,550 You have to call the advisory arm. I can give you their number. 796 00:44:39,635 --> 00:44:42,553 <i>Fuck you, you fucking thief!</i> 797 00:44:45,432 --> 00:44:47,016 Oh, my God. 798 00:44:48,102 --> 00:44:52,063 <i>Unusual circumstances did not exist for Bernie.</i> 799 00:44:52,147 --> 00:44:53,773 <i>Take 9/11.</i> 800 00:44:54,191 --> 00:44:56,651 When those towers got hit, 801 00:44:56,735 --> 00:44:59,862 everybody in the whole entire office 802 00:44:59,947 --> 00:45:02,407 was gathered around the TV. 803 00:45:02,491 --> 00:45:05,618 Who was crying? Who was hysterical? 804 00:45:05,703 --> 00:45:07,078 Not Bernie. 805 00:45:07,162 --> 00:45:11,124 He kept his head down and he continued to work. 806 00:45:12,793 --> 00:45:18,297 And it is not like he did not know anybody in those buildings. 807 00:45:22,302 --> 00:45:25,847 <i>As with every event of personal devastation,</i> 808 00:45:26,390 --> 00:45:30,560 <i>they remember exactly where they were and what they were doing</i> 809 00:45:31,103 --> 00:45:33,062 <i>when they learned they were ruined.</i> 810 00:45:35,357 --> 00:45:39,485 <i>The grayish-white paper rolled out of Mary Thomajan's fax machine.</i> 811 00:45:40,404 --> 00:45:45,074 <i>The fax was from the small feeder fund she had trusted for 18 years,</i> 812 00:45:45,159 --> 00:45:49,078 <i>telling her that all her money had been invested with Madoff,</i> 813 00:45:49,163 --> 00:45:51,122 <i>who had been arrested.</i> 814 00:45:52,499 --> 00:45:54,250 <i>She later recalled,</i> 815 00:45:54,334 --> 00:45:57,086 <i>"In the 50 seconds it took to read that fax,</i> 816 00:45:57,838 --> 00:45:59,672 <i>"I went from being a multimillionaire</i> 817 00:45:59,965 --> 00:46:02,675 <i>"to having my life savings wiped out</i> 818 00:46:03,051 --> 00:46:06,679 <i>"and life as I knew it altered forever. "</i> 819 00:46:09,224 --> 00:46:12,143 <i>Robert Halio's son called him at his retirement home</i> 820 00:46:12,227 --> 00:46:14,187 <i>in Boca Raton with the news.</i> 821 00:46:14,772 --> 00:46:16,022 <i>It's all gone, Dad.</i> 822 00:46:16,273 --> 00:46:19,192 <i>I don't... I don't know what to do.</i> 823 00:46:19,276 --> 00:46:22,820 <i>95% ofhis wealth had been entrusted to Madoff</i> 824 00:46:22,905 --> 00:46:24,864 <i>and was now gone.</i> 825 00:46:25,449 --> 00:46:29,911 <i>Mr. de la Villehuchet had written his brother a letter that said,</i> 826 00:46:29,995 --> 00:46:32,955 <i>"If you ruin your friends, your clients,</i> 827 00:46:33,040 --> 00:46:35,458 <i>"you have to face the consequences. "</i> 828 00:46:35,542 --> 00:46:39,212 <i>He then positioned a trash basket to protect the carpet</i> 829 00:46:39,421 --> 00:46:41,881 <i>and slit his wrist with a box cutter.</i> 830 00:46:42,299 --> 00:46:47,720 <i>Tim Murray, a property manager in Minnesota, was traveling and nearly drove off the road...</i> 831 00:46:48,013 --> 00:46:50,389 <i>Fort Lauderdale...</i> 832 00:46:52,142 --> 00:46:54,310 <i>- Richard Friedman... - David Iselin...</i> 833 00:47:12,496 --> 00:47:14,455 <i>Time to pay the piper, Bernie.</i> 834 00:47:14,790 --> 00:47:17,250 <i>Presumably...</i> 835 00:47:17,626 --> 00:47:20,837 <i>Presumably with the life savings of another piper.</i> 836 00:47:20,921 --> 00:47:21,921 <i>Just...</i> 837 00:47:22,005 --> 00:47:26,175 <i>This was the worst pyramid scheme since the actual pyramids.</i> 838 00:47:28,136 --> 00:47:30,680 <i>Ruth loves to go to the California Pizza Kitchen.</i> 839 00:47:30,764 --> 00:47:34,392 <i>And they say that her favorite dish there is the, uh, veal scallo-Ponzi.</i> 840 00:47:36,770 --> 00:47:39,146 <i>Listen, I have something to tell you that's really important.</i> 841 00:47:39,231 --> 00:47:41,232 <i>I have your money! I can get it to you.</i> 842 00:47:43,944 --> 00:47:46,320 <i>Okay, I guess you're not there.</i> 843 00:47:47,906 --> 00:47:49,657 They can see right in. 844 00:47:50