Scoundrels and Conmen

Saturday, September 13, 2025
Time: 2:30-3:30pm
Milford Theater – ticketed event

Madoff: The Final Word by Richard Behar
Moderator: Richard C. Morais

Richard Behar is arguably the most intrepid and acclaimed investigative journalist of his generation, winning 20 major journalism awards (including the National Magazine Award and the Gerald Loeb Award) for publications such as Time, Fortune and Forbes. Behar has written foundation-shaking cover stories on Scientology, the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing, and on New York’s organized crime. But financial conmen are his specialty, as revealed in his highly acclaimed 2024-puplished book on fraudster Bernie Madoff. Come listen to Behar as he recalls the cat-and-mouse game of intellect he played with the imprisoned Bernie Madoff, besides sharing the practical investment lessons he picked up in a lifetime of exposing the underbelly of America’s financial system.
Richard Behar

Richard Behar

Over a four-decade career, Richard Behar has garnered more than 20 major journalism awards. He is currently the Contributing Editor of Investigations for Forbes magazine, and an Associate Producer and narrator of an upcoming docuseries on post-Soviet organized crime. He previously worked on the staffs of Fortune, Time and Forbes, and carried out probes for CNN and BBC. In 2005, Behar launched Project Klebnikov, a global media alliance committed to shedding light on the Moscow murder of his friend, Forbes editor Paul Klebnikov.
Madoff: The Final Word is his first book [Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, July 2024.]
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Moderator: Richard C. Morais

Richard C. Morais is a financial journalist and novelist best known as the author of the bestseller The Hundred-Foot Journey, a culinary novel that follows the life of an Indian chef as he conquers the rarified world of French haute cuisine. In 2014, Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey released The Hundred-Foot Journey as a film starring Helen Mirren and Om Puri.
His novel The Man with No Borders is the story of an aristocratic Spanish private banker living in Switzerland and coming to terms with his life.
Mr. Morais has also had a distinguished journalism career, including service as Forbes’s longest-serving foreign correspondent, as European Bureau Chief.