Henriques needed some of the correspondence for her 2010 book, The Wizard of Lies.

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C. in August 2010 for my book The Wizard of Lies (Times Books, 2011).

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The Wizard of Lies is a gripping well-told tale and to see her mind work in response to his correspondence was like a graduate school degree in reporting.

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He did so at the insistence of SEC regulators, after they had bungled yet another investigation of tips that Madoff was dishonest. (You can find details of that and other failed SEC investigations of Madoff in The Wizard of Lies, my book on his historic Ponzi scheme.) Unable to find any sign of fraud, regulators concluded that Madoff was merely operating as a money-manager without having registered.

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