Bernard Madoff
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/12/business/12scheme.html?...
Leading Wall St. investor Bernie Madoff was charged in a $50 billion securities fraud today. He is to be released tonight on $10 million bond. The complaint charges that Madoff told colleagues that his investment company was “all just one big lie” that was “basically, a giant Ponzi scheme”

