Middle East Madoff
The Lebanese have been riveted for the past few weeks by the arrest of a man people are calling the Middle East Bernie Madoff. Authorities say he ran a pyramid scheme that bilked investors out of a billion dollars. The World’s Aaron Schachter reports from southern Lebanon.
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