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Bob Menendez: It was an elaborate scheme that cost thousands of people an estimated $50 billion.

On the recordJanuary 26, 2009
It was an elaborate scheme that cost thousands of people an estimated $50 billion.
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Bob Menendez
Democratic · New Jersey

Editor's note · Context

Menendez describes the scale of Madoff's fraudulent scheme.

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