Bernie Madoff talks about his crimes — Transcript

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1. 0:00having you know a mindset where you feel
2. 0:02you can almost accomplish
3. 0:12anything you start out at least in my
4. 0:14part not exactly sure what I wanted to
5. 0:18do in life other than be a success I
6. 0:21built my confidence up to a level where
7. 0:24I sort of felt that you know there was
8. 0:26nothing that I couldn't attain I would
9. 0:29speak with Bernie every Wednesday
10. 0:30evening at 700 p.m. in in my office and
11. 0:32we did this for for over a course of
12. 0:34years he's brilliant he's cordial and
13. 0:37many ways very friendly and speaking to
14. 0:40him and spending all this time with him
15. 0:42there's part of me that really
16. 0:44recognizes that he he seems like a very
17. 0:46affable pleasant person to be around but
18. 0:49simultaneously you also realize that he
19. 0:50actually engaged in the most significant
20. 0:52white collar crime in history and has
21. 0:55devastated thousands of people but his
22. 0:58personality cordial
23. 1:01friendly you almost in a sense you could
24. 1:03actually see warm in his conversations
25. 1:06but it's actually those characteristics
26. 1:08that helped him perpetrate this crime I
27. 1:12sort of
28. 1:13rationalized that what I was doing was
29. 1:15okay you know it wasn't going to hurt
30. 1:17anybody it was a temporary thing and
31. 1:20because of the success that I've had and
32. 1:23the money I made for people I sort of
33. 1:26felt that it would just sort of the uh
34. 1:29you know
35. 1:30temporary situation and acceptable
36. 1:34[Applause]
37. 1:35[Music]