Latest Madoff Podcast Episodes
Ep. 6: Something Fishy
Ponzi Supernova - June 09, 2017 07:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 309 ratingsIn the series finale, reporter Steve Fishman finally reaches the core of Madoff's collapsed star: the forces that pulled $65 billion down a dark hole. With Bernie as our guide, we learn about unseen financial forces that continue to tug on us all, and why they might be impossible to control.
Ep. 5: Clawback!
Ponzi Supernova - June 02, 2017 07:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 309 ratingsIn this episode, the most familiar faces of Madoff's collapse - the victims - in a new light. Reporter Steve Fishman goes behind the scenes of a surprisingly effective and complicated recovery effort that blurs the lines between fair and cruel, guilty and innocent.
Ep. 4: Hide the Screw
Ponzi Supernova - May 26, 2017 07:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★ - 309 ratingsBernie Madoff, the man behind a $65 billion Ponzi scheme, confessed. He was never caught. In this episode, reporter Steve Fishman sets out to discover how a ragtag team, with 30 year-old technology, managed to fool private auditors and the United States government for decades.
Ep. 3: The Operation
Ponzi Supernova - May 19, 2017 05:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 309 ratingsWhen Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme collapsed, we saw a portrait of a high-tech Wall Street genius duping the financial world. In this episode, what we didn't see. Reporter Steve Fishman introduces us to the unlikely, almost unbelievable perpetrators of history's biggest fraud.
Ep. 2: When Madoff Calls
Ponzi Supernova - May 11, 2017 21:32 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 309 ratingsReporter Steve Fishman finally reaches Bernie Madoff in North Carolina, where the famous Ponzi schemer is serving a 150 year prison sentence. In never before heard jailhouse interviews, Fishman asks Bernie the big questions: how did he do it? And why? The answers lead further and deeper than we ...
Ep. 1: Getting to Madoff
Ponzi Supernova - May 05, 2017 07:30 - 23 minutes ★★★★ - 309 ratingsReporter Steve Fishman tells the story of how he convinced Bernie Madoff to call him from prison. Along the way, Steve learns about Madoff’s life in prison from Bernie’s new associates: the other criminals serving time in Butner, NC.
Episode 33
Virtual Vice - a new technology crime novel based on true events - May 14, 2009 00:23 - 43 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingClosing arguments: con cum full circle.
Episode 32
Virtual Vice - a new technology crime novel based on true events - May 13, 2009 22:15 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingThe summit: cocaine and crocodiles.
Episode 31
Virtual Vice - a new technology crime novel based on true events - May 13, 2009 20:38 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingThe Wizard takes the stand as defense witness.
Episode 30
Virtual Vice - a new technology crime novel based on true events - May 13, 2009 07:21 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingThe Fourth Estate as co-counsel.
Episode 29
Virtual Vice - a new technology crime novel based on true events - May 13, 2009 07:06 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingConfidence man on trial.
Episode 28
Virtual Vice - a new technology crime novel based on true events - May 13, 2009 03:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingSelling salvation.
Episode 27
Virtual Vice - a new technology crime novel based on true events - May 12, 2009 22:58 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingHooker Nun
Episode 26
Virtual Vice - a new technology crime novel based on true events - May 12, 2009 08:13 - 42 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingPastor Petey, pimping for Christ.
Episode 25
Virtual Vice - a new technology crime novel based on true events - May 12, 2009 03:08 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingChronicling the MIII CEO’s costly comedy of errors.
Episode 24
Virtual Vice - a new technology crime novel based on true events - May 11, 2009 01:52 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingCivil suit - character attacks and straw-man arguments.
Episode 23
Virtual Vice - a new technology crime novel based on true events - May 10, 2009 16:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingThe reckoning.
Episode 22
Virtual Vice - a new technology crime novel based on true events - May 10, 2009 09:50 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingThe shake up.
Episode 21
Virtual Vice - a new technology crime novel based on true events - May 10, 2009 09:42 - 18 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingSarbanes Oxley - Full disclosure.
Episode 20
Virtual Vice - a new technology crime novel based on true events - May 09, 2009 23:02 - 34 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingShareholders left holding the bag.
Episode 19
Virtual Vice - a new technology crime novel based on true events - May 09, 2009 06:58 - 19 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingRunning a corporation as sole proprietorship.
Episode 18
Virtual Vice - a new technology crime novel based on true events - May 09, 2009 04:09 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingCEO to shareholders: I did the crime; you do the time.
Episode 17
Virtual Vice - a new technology crime novel based on true events - May 09, 2009 01:28 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingFiring the client. Confidence man turned embezzler.
Episode 16
Virtual Vice - a new technology crime novel based on true events - May 08, 2009 06:34 - 23 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingThe making of a cybervangelist.
Episode 15
Virtual Vice - a new technology crime novel based on true events - May 08, 2009 05:33 - 19 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingSame carny – new state and new marks.
Episode 14
Virtual Vice - a new technology crime novel based on true events - May 08, 2009 04:45 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingPonzi scheme smoke and mirrors.
Episode 13
Virtual Vice - a new technology crime novel based on true events - May 08, 2009 01:46 - 20 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingMore musings from the lunatic fringe.
Episode 12
Virtual Vice - a new technology crime novel based on true events - May 08, 2009 00:21 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingA pattern of paranoia and retributive behavior.
Episode 11
Virtual Vice - a new technology crime novel based on true events - May 07, 2009 05:18 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingNot the sum of its parts.
Episode 10
Virtual Vice - a new technology crime novel based on true events - May 07, 2009 05:05 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingHoly folly and diseased bloodline.