I recently watched Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street on Netflix. This 4-episode series chronicles the rise and fall of Bernie Madoff, who orchestrated the biggest Ponzi scheme in Wall Street history. While I didn’t think the actual documentary was anything groundbreaking, (it hits the typical beats for a documentary and I don’t think it needed to be 4 episodes long) the subject material is fascinating. Bernie Madoff was an American financier and respected Wall Street figure who was at one time chairman of the NASDAQ stock exchange.