To resolve this crazed theft, Low wagered an IPO of 1MDB’s power plants would bring in billions of dollars. Yet he never spent long cogitating the endgame. Bernie Madoff bet he could always find new investors in his pyramid scheme, which ran more than four decades. But Madoff’s fraud, like many other examples before, collapsed when he could no longer lure new dupes, whose money he needed to pay “profits” to other investors. Low
