Audible Releases Ponzi Supernova, an Original Series Shedding New Light on Bernie Madoff and the Biggest Ponzi Scheme in Hist...
2017年1月12日 - 11:00PM
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Six-Part Original Audio Documentary Features
Dozens of Fascinating New Interviews and Recordings of Bernie
Madoff from Jail
Audible Inc., the world’s largest seller and producer of
downloadable audiobooks and other spoken word entertainment, today
announced the release of Ponzi Supernova, an original series
that offers fresh insight into Bernie Madoff’s $65 billion Ponzi
Scheme—directly from Madoff himself. Hosted by distinguished
journalist Steve Fishman, the series features never-before-heard
recordings of Madoff as well as dozens of new interviews with FBI
and SEC agents, attorneys, traders, financial investors, and
victims of Madoff’s devastating Ponzi scheme. The first four
episodes of this six-part series are now available within the
Audible Channels experience. Additional information can be found at
audible.com/Ponzi.
For years, Fishman’s tough-minded and persistent reporting on
Madoff has been instrumental in exposing the magnitude of the Ponzi
scheme, and the story of the larger, frequently overlooked
financial system that enabled Madoff to manipulate and dupe tens of
thousands of victims including his closest friends. In Ponzi
Supernova, Fishman takes his investigative reporting to new
heights, providing captivating depth and detail in chronicling a
crime that continues to shock anew.
The final two episodes of the series, which will release at the
end of January, take listeners beyond the scheme’s operation and
collapse, detailing clawback efforts, and investigating how victims
are receiving remuneration, sometimes from other victims. Ponzi
Supernova puts the still-evolving nightmare into a larger, current
context, and demonstrates how the scheme’s far-flung impact
continues to reverberate so many years later.
“Even before Ponzi Supernova, I’d spent years working on the
Madoff story, and I thought I knew it well, but I didn’t,” said
Fishman. “The story we tell in Ponzi Supernova surprised me in its
details, its sweep, and its import. I got to (journalistically)
hang out with Madoff in the prison yard where he cornered the
market in hot chocolate and listen to him for a dozen hours as he
revealed in intimate detail how he got away with his crimes. And
for this series, I finally examined a question that had always
bugged me: why did Madoff succeed for so long? I studied the forces
that sustained him and profited from him, and that part of the
story was the scariest of all.”
“We are thrilled to have Ponzi Supernova join the innovative,
original programming available in Audible Channels,” said Audible
Chief Content Officer Andy Gaies. “This rich audio documentary will
fascinate listeners, who continue to look to Audible for fresh and
unique content and builds on our ever-growing roster of original
shows and series across genres.”
Introduced earlier this year, Audible Channels features a
consistently refreshed, thoughtfully organized selection of
original programs, lectures, and audio editions of standout
articles and news from The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times,
Harvard Business Review, Foreign Affair, Charlie Rose, The Onion,
and other leading periodicals. Audible Channels also showcases 20
hand-selected Audible Playlists, from essential stories of the day,
meditation and commute-sized comedy to compilations on science,
history, technology, and more. Audible Channels is free with an
Audible membership and to Amazon Prime members, and also available
to purchase as a standalone offering for $4.95 a month.
Additional new original series and shows are announced and added
to Audible Channels regularly. For more information about Audible
Channels and the wide array of shows found therein, visit
audible.com/channels.
Audible invented and commercialized the first digital audio
player in 1997, and has since been at the forefront of the
explosively growing audiobook download segment. Audible members
downloaded an average of more than 17 books over the course of the
year. More than half of new Audible members are first-time
audiobook buyers.
ABOUT AUDIBLE, INC.
Audible, Inc., an Amazon.com, Inc. subsidiary
(NASDAQ:AMZN), is the leading provider of premium digital spoken
audio information and entertainment, offering customers a new way
to enhance and enrich their lives every day. Audible was created to
unleash the emotive music in language and the habituating power and
utility of verbal expression. Audible content includes more than
325,000 audio programs from leading audiobook publishers,
broadcasters, entertainers, magazine and newspaper publishers, and
business information providers. Audible is also the preeminent
provider of spoken-word audio products for Apple’s iTunes
Store.
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