Erin E. Arvedlund is a financial journalist who has written for ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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, and Portfolio.com. On Feb. 1, 2011, her "Your Money" column debuted in ''

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''. On May 7, 2001, ''Barron's'' published her article "Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Bernie Madoff Attracts Skeptics in 2001". This was only the second investigative article, following closely on Michael Ocrant's May 1, 2001 article in industry publication '' MARHedge'', to question

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's scheme, his demand for investor secrecy and his "enviably steady gains". When the SEC finally investigated Madoff, after the December 2008 failure of his multi-billion dollar scheme, its Exhibit 104 belatedly mentions the Ocrant and Arvedlund articles: Arvedlund's father was a money manager in

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, where she was raised. She graduated from Ursuline Academy in 1984 and

Archmere Academy Archmere Academy is a private Catholic college preparatory school in Claymont, Delaware, United States. 514 students were enrolled for the 202021 academic year. The academy is co-educational and independent, though located within the Diocese of ...

in 1988, both in Wilmington. She attended

Tufts University Tufts University is a private research university in Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts, United States, with additional facilities in Boston and Grafton, as well as Talloires, France. Tufts also has several Doctor of Physical Therapy p ...

before starting her career at

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. She lives in

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. Arvedlund's first book, ''Too Good to be True: The Rise and Fall of Bernie Madoff'', was published in August, 2009. This was followed, in June, 2010, by ''The Club No One Wanted to Join - Madoff Victims in Their Own Words'', which she edited from the stories told by Madoff's victims. Arvedlund also wrote a book on the

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, ''Open Secret: The Global Banking Conspiracy That Swindled Investors Out of Billions'', published in September, 2014, covering how the

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(Libor), a primary benchmark for short-term interest rates around the world, had been manipulated by major banks across the world.

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