There was no mistaking who he was: the silver hair, those beady eyes, that sheepish expression that makes him look like a guilty hamster. "Hello," he said. "I'm Bernie Madoff, and I'm about to offer you the investment opportunity of a lifetime." I cringed. Madoff had been in prison for less than an hour and he had already made the classic rookie's mistake: never set up a Ponzi scheme during your first week.
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