Richard Behar is sitting in front of his computer in his home in New York. If he turned his screen around, he told me, I’d see a wall of banker boxes collected over more than a decade spent researching Madoff: The Final Word. A forensic and brilliant book, it documents a decade and a half of trying to unravel the hows and the whys of Bernie Madoff. The Brooklyn-born Jewish son of Eastern European immigrants ran a decades-long $65 billion Ponzi scheme that duped tens of thousands of people, including survivors of the Holocaust. Between 2011 and Madoff’s death in…

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