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Lives. until now, he says he acted alone. this, you could say, is a revelation. madoffs family said had he no idea what he was up for the purpose talk more about this with christine romans. do you think some bankers who have read this article or will read this article might be getting a little nervous? >> reporter: im in the sure. the book that its being written for is called "the can i seeard of lies." so no one knows what you can believe from bernie madoff. he says he was the soul mastermind a...

Reform and protests also spilling into libya. people there want the prime minister ousted. not their ruler, omar qaddafi. a shooting in northern mexico leaves an american immigration agent dead. another agent is hurt. he was part of the human smuggling unit in loredo, texas and the other agent were reportedly attacked driving a government suv between mexico city and monterey. a mexican investigator says they may have stopped at a phony army checkpoint. the injured agent is in stable condition. h...

He says the banks knew. convicted con man bernie madoff speaking out for the first time since the massive ponzi scheme was revealed. madoff telling "the new york times" "they had to know but the attitude was sort of if youre doing something wrong, we dont wanna know." madoff didnt specify which banks might have known about his $50 billion scam. the 72-year-old is now serving 150 year prison sentence and he did go on in that interview to say that his family still did not know what the banks did. ...

He tells the times quote they had to know but the attitude was if youre doing something wrong, we dont want to know. until now he says he acted alone. he still says his family had no idea what he was up to. the story about bell, california, gets juicier, like bacon cooking on the skill let. remember bell, the tiny poor town that put government corruption on the map. a city manager making about $800,000 and other officials making huge salaries for do ardly any work, sometimes no work at all, an...

Turning a blind eye to his massive ponsist scheme. he said, quote, they had to know, but the attitude was sort of if youre doing something wrong, we dont want to know about it. in an e-mail he wrote, im saying the banks were complicit. for more, lets turn to jim cramer. host of"mad money." i hear youre skeptical as i was of anybody talking in federal prison. first, they all say theyre innocent. that wont work. but hes trying to say im not the only one. you know the old line liberals like to use,...

We have live coverage of that very shortly. jay carney handled communications for vice president biden for two years and before that he spent almost two decades reporting for "time" magazine. carney replaces robert gibbs. and bernie madoff in his first prison interview. hes blaming the banks. madoff is jailed for swindling billions in an elaborate ponzi scheme and he tells the "new york times" they, the banks, had to know. but the attitude was sort of if youre doing something wrong, we dont want...

A blind eye and that they knew exactly what he was up to. that is how we start our brand new hour of "americas newsroom", morning, everybody, morning, bill, im martha maccallum. bill: good good morning, martha. im bill heller. -- hemmer. the bombshell came in a jailhouse. the scam artist, serving a 150 year sentence but the quote was they had to know but the attitude was sort of if youre doing something wrong, we dont want to know, end quote. martha: rick leventhal joins us from our newsroom. wh...

His family did not know about the whole thing. madoff tells todays "new york times" that numerous banks and hedge funds were complicit in the scheme. he claims the attitude of those unnamed institutions was, quote, if youre doing something wrong, we dont want to know about it. >> the plot thickens. overseas now where italys leader is now facing a trial on sex charges in april. prosecutors say silvio berlusconi paid an underage girl for sex and then tried to cover it up. >> italians in general ...

Honor for a civilian. well be talking to msnbcs lawrence odonnell who attended the ceremony with russ. >> "new york times" in his fircht interin a publication since his arrest, madoff says banks had to known of his widespread fraud. if youre doing something wrong, we dont want to know. >> and "usa today," the parent of the new york stock exchange has agreed to be acquired by the frankfurt stock exchange. still no word on a possible name of the combined exchange. >> "wall street journal," potenti...

Article in "rolling stone." matt taibbi started looking into it. an investigator gave him this spoiler alert. quote, everything is fd up and nobody goes to jail. thats the whole story right there. now, that turns out to be slightly inaccurate. one guy did got to jail. he name is bernie madoff. hes serving a 150-year prison sentence. but he said in a jailhouse interview released today in "the new york times," quote, the banks had to know, but the attitude was sort of, if youre doing something wro...