A look at how one investigator spent ten years trying to expose Bernie Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme that scammed an estimated $18 billion from investors.
Direction
Prosserman turns SEC incompetence into thriller tension.
Editing
Ratchets dread as Markopolos's warnings go ignored.
Acting
Markopolos's raw, unfiltered bitterness is documentary gold.
Director
Jeff Prosserman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Markopolos originally discovered the fraud in 1999 by reverse-engineering Madoff's 'impossible' consistent returns; he submitted detailed reports to the SEC four separate times.
Released post-2008 crash, the film became a Rorschach test: Wall Street saw a bad apple, Main Street saw the whole orchard rotting.
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