De Niro and Levinson serve as executive producer alongside Jane Rosenthal, Berry Welsh and Tom Fontana.
The scheme spanned from the ’90s, though federal investigators believed the fraud to have begun as far back as the ’70s.
With HBO examining the epic rise and fall of Bernie Madoff, from how the crimes were committed all the way through sentencing, actor Robert De Niro will star as the con artist as well as executive produce.
De Niro is no stranger to playing crooked characters and rose to fame with a string of mafia crime roles in The Godfather Part II, The Untouchables, and Goodfellas.