Comment: They thought he had it all – but really it was all a lie
ON December 10, 2008, two debonair financiers broke down to family members in Manhattan, New York, and confessed their lives were a mirage.
One man was Bernie Madoff, the other was Breifne O'Brien - though the scale of the Ponzi schemes operated by Madoff and O'Brien are worlds apart.
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