Diana B. Henriques

Author of The Wizard of Lies & Contributing Writer at The New York Times

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Diana B. Henriques, an award-winning financial journalist, is the author of A First-Class Catastrophe: The Road to Black Monday, the Worst Day in Wall Street History, released in September 2017. She is also the author of The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust, a New York Times bestseller, and three other books on business history.
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Here And Now Interview: “A First Class Catastrophe”

Interview with Barry Levinson

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Interview with Michelle Pfeiffer

Fox Business Interview and Film Synopsis

WGN Radio Interview

Featured Articles

Bernie Madoff’s Essential Man
Questioning the Seaworthiness of Bond Funds
Money Funds Remain Haunted by Fears of ‘Breaking the Buck’
Andrew Madoff, Who Told of His Father’s Swindle, Dies at 48
Broken Trust in God’s Country

“The money-fund industry, meanwhile, is bracing for new rules while facing old realities: low interest rates that discourage investors and compress fees.”

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Henriques appears in the NYT video "Giving Fraud a Bad Name"

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“Riveting reading ... [Henriques] probably knows more than anyone outside the FBI and the Securities and Exchange Commission about the mechanics of the fraud. As a consequence, in The Wizard of Lies she is able to add significant detail to the story ... In the end the story holds us not because of the engrossing details of the scam, but because of the human dimension.”

— The New York Times Book Review More reviews

Madoff by The Numbers

Claims filed: 16,518
Claims approved: 2,409
Lawyers on court mailing list: 216
SIPC’s Legal Bills: est. $138,826,065.25
Rate per billable hour: from $698 to $742

The Toys:
The Jet: 2008 Embraer Legacy 600 jet, price tag $24.8 million
The French Yacht: 2007 88-foot Leopard Superyacht, est. $8.5 million
The US Yacht: 1969 55-foot Rybovich Sportfish, auctioned for $700,000
The Wheels: Monthly lease payments for six luxury sedans, $6,238.79
His Last New Car: 2009 Mercedes Benz S550

Prisoner number: 61727-054
Lottery tickets that won with this number: 1
Payout: $1,500

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