Now, Hollywood legend Robert De Niro is bringing Madoff’s story to the small screen with an HBO original movie, The Wizard of Lies, directed by Barry Levinson.
The Wizard of Lies premieres in May on HBO.
The hardest part for De Niro to understand was, how did the people the closest to Madoff not have an idea what was going on for so long?
Madoff was perhaps the most efficient in throwing off the Security and Exchanges Commission (SEC) for as long as he did.