버나드 매이도프

소개

버나드 로런스 "버니" 메이도프(영어: Bernard Lawrence "Bernie" Madoff, 1938년 4월 29일~2021년 4월 14일)는 전직 미국 증권 중개인, 투자 상담사, 나스닥 외부 이사를 역임하였으며 역사상 최대 규모의 폰지 사기 주동자로 알려져 있다.

Bernard Lawrence Madoff was an American financier, con artist, and stock broker who was the admitted mastermind of the largest-known Ponzi scheme in history, worth an estimated $65 billion. He was at one time chairman of the Nasdaq stock exchange. Madoff's firm had two basic units: a stock brokerage and an asset management business; the Ponzi scheme was centered in the asset management business.