Quotation

Played by the real reporter/writer: My name is Diana Henriques. As an investigating reporter for the "New York Times," I had been covering the Bernie Madoff scandal from the day it began. After months of requests and correspondence, I was finally able to sit down and interview Bernie Madoff on August 24th, 2010. Until today, his only visitor apart from lawyers has been his wife. He has not answered any independent questions about his crime except when standing in a courtroom responding to a judge. On those occasions, he seemed stiff, almost rehearsed. But in our conversation, he seemed relaxed, unfailingly candid, earnest, and trustworthy. That is his talent and his curse. That is what enabled him to pull off the biggest Ponzi scheme on record. === Well, but these people, you know, they had a little greed in them, too. There was a little bit of, you know... look, you know, and they didn't wanna look too hard. They looked just far enough. So they're accomplices in some way, too.