Its weird how he was the only one dealing with all the monetary side of the business and that his sons - the senior executives - had no knowledge of what was happening

I guess in a scheme like his you are OK so long as you are a relatively small investor and you get out before it all crashes. Its unbelievable how he could have kept it going for 50 years although I guess this is the first real economic downturn since before world war 2 when there would be more likely to be a rush of people wanting to withdraw their money

It was disgusting how in his last meeting with his sons he was talking about how to distribute his last half a billion dollars or so amongst family and friends before he turned himself in