Erin E. Arvedlund is a financial journalist who has written for ''

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, and Portfolio.com. On Feb. 1, 2011, her "Your Money" column debuted in ''

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''. On May 7, 2001, ''Barron's'' published her article "Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Bernie Madoff Attracts Skeptics in 2001". This was only the second investigative article, following closely on Michael Ocrant's May 1, 2001 article in industry publication '' MARHedge'', to question

Bernard Madoff Bernard Lawrence Madoff ( ; April 29, 1938April 14, 2021) was an American fraudster and financier who was the admitted mastermind of the largest Ponzi scheme in history, worth about $64.8 billion. He was at one time chairman of the NASDAQ s ...

's scheme, his demand for investor secrecy and his "enviably steady gains". When the SEC finally investigated Madoff, after the December 2008 failure of his multi-billion dollar scheme, its Exhibit 104 belatedly mentions the Ocrant and Arvedlund articles: Arvedlund's father was a money manager in

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, where she was raised. She graduated from Ursuline Academy in 1984 and

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in 1988, both in Wilmington. She attended

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before starting her career at

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. She lives in

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. Arvedlund's first book, ''Too Good to be True: The Rise and Fall of Bernie Madoff'', was published in August, 2009. This was followed, in June, 2010, by ''The Club No One Wanted to Join - Madoff Victims in Their Own Words'', which she edited from the stories told by Madoff's victims. Arvedlund also wrote a book on the Libor scandal, ''Open Secret: The Global Banking Conspiracy That Swindled Investors Out of Billions'', published in September, 2014, covering how the

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(Libor), a primary benchmark for short-term interest rates around the world, had been manipulated by major banks across the world.

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