Bernard Lefkowitz

Bernie Madoff, a well-respected financier, conducted one of the most well-known Ponzi schemes. Madoff lured in investors by guaranteeing them unusual high returns. Over several decades, Madoff was able to scam and convince thousands of investors to hand over their savings with a false promise of consistent profits in return. He was eventually caught in December 2008 and was charged with 11 counts of fraud, money laundering, perjury, and theft (Yang). On June 29, 2009, he was sentenced to 150…

Taxi Driver is a 1976 movie directed by Martin Scorsese, produced by Julia and Michael Phillips, music by Bernard Hermann. With a great plot and engage music Travis Bickle the main character of story, a , is a lonely and a depressed 26-year-old living in New York City. He is a taxi driver with his chronic insomnia, driving passengers every night around the city. Travis feel in love with Betsy, a campaign volunteer for Senator and presidential candidate Charles Palantine. Travis succeeds in…

“Fake it ‘til you make it” sadly doesn’t always work, especially when what’s being faked is Jesus’s brother’s ossuary. “Unholy Business: A True Tale of Faith, Greed and Forgery in the Holy Land” by Nina Burleigh was published in 2008, describes the journey and struggle of validating this ossuary. James Ossuary is the main focus of this book, and all of the experts and millionaires that want to have it in their collection. The story of the discovery, travel, and testing of the ossuary is told…

Citizen Kane is undoubtedly one the world's most famous and highly-rated film. Its use of cinematic techniques, narrative techniques and experimental innovations in the areas of photography, editing, and sound brings the narrative to life and entices our engagement throughout the motion picture. Citizen Kane’s director, star, and producer were all the same genius individual - Orson Welles. Throughout this essay, I will look at such cinematic techniques used in the sequence “Young Charles…

These cold November days in Mississippi are miserable, and i think 1931’s school year was the worst year i’ve ever had.. It had been a long rainy day. I got home from work and began getting some food ready for the children as well as some towels. They all came home soaking wet from them dang buses. The children had to walk to school everyday. Little man didn’t like it because he hated to get dirty, and the buses with all them white kids would think it was the funniest thing to drive extra fast…

Analyzing The Big Short The whole housing market is built like a giant Jenga tower. The AAA mortgages are at the top of the tower while the BBB’s are the lowest base of the tower. The AAA’s and AA mortgages were to make so much money that the extra money was to trickle down to the BBB’s at the base. This information is in the book The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine written by Michael Lewis. He has written many best-selling non-fiction books like Moneyball and The Blind Side both were…

This is not the first time Madoff office has been raided by SEC investigators, the recent raid being on 20th April 2005. They wanted to know if Madoff had hedge trade funds or executing hedge trade funds for others as he always claimed. Their investigation was after SEC staffers had found an email that expressed why Renaissance Technologies stopped doing business with Madoff. Initially, examiners claimed they were just on a normal routine examination of the brokerage firm’s books and records. On…

With the information that is provided in this case the element of white collar crime that Bernie Madoff showed was bankruptcy fraud, and a form of blackmail. Baste of the information in chapter 6 the reason why white collar criminals are able to carry out their schemes for so long are, because most of them are mostly highly educated people that work within a powerful business or organization. One of the ways Madoff was able to keep his scheme going for so long because, he hired inexperienced…

Bernie Madoff started his family-operated business legally selling stocks before committing one of the largest white-collar crimes of our generation. Madoff was a credible and well-respected figure on Wall Street. He was lobbying for investment changes, sat on an advisory committee for regulation of the stock market, and served as the Chairman of NASDAQ (Ferrell, Fraedrich & Ferrell, 2013). As Madoff became more respected, his clientele list became more select. Bernie Madoff promised his…

There is overwhelming evidence that Bernard Madoff did not work alone. He may have masterminded the entire scheme but he has accomplices along the way that helped him to carry out his elaborate fraud and several have been charged for the crimes. For example, between 1998 and 2008, Madoff wrote $84 billion in checks to just four people (Johnston, 2014). According to Johnston, in 2002 alone, 318 checks were written from Madoff's 703 account to a Norman Levy, who had a private offshore bank; who…