ETHICAL AND LEGAL ISSUES
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Bernard Lawrence Madoff was a well known and respected entrepreneur, investor and stockbroker. He also was the non-executive chairman of NASDAQ up until the uncovering of his fraudulent activities that he had carried out since the early 1990s. Madoff established his investment firm in 1960 with which he used his influence and trust to con people of their hard earned money promising a good return on their investments at a better rate than the prevailing stock market and bank rates. However this was a huge scam, what is known as a Ponzi scheme. A Ponzi scheme is a type of securities fraud where the ...