One of the few media sources to communicate with Bernie Madoff while he was in prison, Jim Campbell chronicles how the disgraced financier orchestrated the largest Ponzi scheme in history in a book released earlier this year.
Campbell, who conducted numerous interviews with the Madoff family and their associates, Wall Street executives, lawyers, analysts and investigators, discussed the book — his first — during an appearance Monday at the Palm Beach Chamber of Commerce’s monthly breakfast meeting at The Breakers.
“Madoff Talks: Uncovering the Untold Story Behind the Most Notorious Ponzi Scheme in History,” presents an insider account of Madoff’s long-running fraud, which landed him in federal prison in 2009.
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Campbell, who hosts the nationally syndicated radio show “Business Talk with Jim Campbell,” told guests that the book grew out of 400 pages of handwritten letters and emails he exchanged with Madoff’s family and others close to him, and includes new details about the financier’s business and family, and how he got away with committing fraud for so long, he said.
Madoff plead guilty in March 2009 to running the Ponzi scheme — estimated at $17 billion — and was sentenced to 150 years in prison. He died in April at age 82.
“I had three objectives with the book,” said Campbell. “One was trying to get inside Bernie’s mind, which was…
