Bernie Madoffs American Express Bill

This Madoff American Express Bill was used as evidence during the trial.

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As part of his investigation into Bernard Madoff’s Byzantine Ponzi scheme, court-appointed trustee Irving Picard recently released selected American Express bills that were associated with the confessed con man’s corporate credit card.

Let’s take a look at one American Express bill in detail, the charges that were accrued during the month-long period that ended on January 23, 2008. That billing period includes the end-of-year holidays, of course, when it’s not uncommon for all Americans to spend just a little too excessively.

What can we learn about this now fallen American family from their charges? First of all, they spent a lot of time on airplanes, but they must have had some bad experiences in the past because they all required luggage insurance when they traveled, Mark and Andrew to Jackson Hole during this billing period, Shana, a “compliance officer” at the firm, to Cancun, and Bernie and Ruth to Palm Beach.

Since this was a corporate American Express card, how about the activity of employees who were unrelated to the Madoffs? The purchasing habits of Ms. JoAnn Crupi are particularly remarkable.