A true American tragedy comes to TV this week (and no, we’re not talking about FX’s American Crime Story which examines the O.J. Simpson trial, or ABC’s American Crime, which is entirely fictional). No, the new mini-series, Madoff, tells the tale of the mastermind behind one of the biggest financial fraud in history.
It all unraveled in 2008 when it was discovered that the then revered financial guru was running a massive Ponzi scheme, one that brought down not only the extremely wealthy but also thousands of regular folk who had given the supposed genius investor their life savings, their kid’s college funds and their retirement accounts.