An experimental film shown at Lincoln Center. A Netflix documentary series, The Monster of Wall Street. And now, adding to a fat stack that includes a colouring book and an exposé by New York Times reporter that generated its own Robert De Niro movie, a new prose probe entitled Madoff: The Final Word.
Final? As its own author, Richard Behar, admits: Doubtful.
Along-time investigative journalist who has taken on, among other formidable institutions, the litigious Church of Scientology, Behar spent 15 years seemingly half-shackled to and half-tickled by this, his first book. Along with many, many secondary interviews, he visited Madoff in prison three times; talked to him on the phone about 50 times; and received from him dozens of handwritten letters and hundreds of emails. (He's far from the first or only reporter to have visited the man in the clink, but the passage of time has loosened some auxiliary tongues -though death has stilled others.)
For every dollar he stole, Madoff seems to have generated at least one piece of regular paper. The hoard of 30 million documents he didn't manage to destroy, Behar writes, "is nearly half the size of the printed material collection of the US Library of Congress." The shredding operation Madoff ran starting in the mid-90s, in a Brooklyn facility now called Tuck-It-Away, had burlap bags of the scraps taken to a nearby recycling plant, his secrets "dissolving to mulch."
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