Netflix’s Madoff docuseries makes a wild claim about the disgraced financier

He oversaw the largest Ponzi scheme in history, a $64 billion global con that defrauded some 44,000 victims from hospitals to colleges, as well as celebrities like Kevin Bacon and Larry King. In Netflix's new docuseries Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street, though, one of the many wild details revealed about disgraced financier Bernie Madoff is that he didn't simply acquiesce to a…