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“It's a proprietary strategy. I can't go into it in great detail.”

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Bernard Madoff, born on April 29, 1938, was a deceased stockbroker. He is infamous for orchestrating the largest Ponzi scheme in history, which resulted in the loss of tens of billions of dollars for thousands of investors. more

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