''Chasing Madoff'' is a 2010 documentary film written and directed by Jeff Prosserman. The film is based on the book by Harry Markopolos. It was first released at the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam on 19 November 2010. It was first shown in North America on 26 August 2011.

Summary

The film chronicles how Harry Markopolos and his associates spent ten years trying to get the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and others to acknowledge and act on their investigative proof of

Bernie Madoff Bernard Lawrence Madoff ( ; April 29, 1938April 14, 2021) was an American fraudster and financier who was the admitted mastermind of the largest Ponzi scheme in history, worth about $64.8 billion. He was at one time chairman of the NASDAQ ...

Ponzi scheme A Ponzi scheme (, ) is a form of fraud that lures investors and pays profits to earlier investors with funds from more recent investors. Named after Italian businessman Charles Ponzi, the scheme leads victims to believe that profits are comi ...

, which scammed an estimated $18 billion, or $65 billion including fake returns, from investors. Despite a series of meetings over a number of years, the SEC ignored Markopolos and his associates or only gave the evidence a cursory investigation.

Interviewees

* Harry Markopolos * Frank Casey * Neil Chelo * Michael Ocrant * Gaytri Kachroo

Reception

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, the film has a weighted average score of 52 out of 100, based on 17 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".

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gave the film a B+ rating.

References

External links

* * {{Madoff investment scandal Films about con artists Madoff investment scandal American documentary films 2010 documentary films 2010 films Documentary films about crime in the United States Fraud in the United States 2010s English-language films 2010s American films