By Patrick J. Buchanan
| May 7, 2021 | 4:11am EDT
Two of the wealthiest men in the world, Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos and Microsoft CEO Bill Gates. (File photo STAN HONDA/AFP via Getty Images)
"There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money," is an insight the famed biographer James Boswell attributed to Samuel Johnson.
Clients of the late Bernie Madoff, however, might take issue.
Over four decades, Madoff, acclaimed as the greatest fraudster of them all, ran a Ponzi scheme that swindled 40,000 people, including his closest friends, out of $65 billion.
But if "getting money" is among the most innocent of callings, America has more than its fair share of the goodly people who excel at it.