It soon led to its children to start a dry kind of shady dealings.
Mr Slota’s SNP has had three ministers thrown out of office after accusations of shady dealings.
They think he's cut some shady deals with contractors who paid him bribes under the table to get contracts to repair city roads and Bridges.
Ownership could be challenged, but critics worry that it would be difficult to do so for former state-owned assets or for land-use rights that had been sold off in shady deals.
In “The Wizard of Lies”, Diana Henriques, who covered the Madoff scandal for the New York Times, offers a riveting history of Mr Madoff’s shady dealings and the shattering consequences of his theft.
