Bradley S. Cohen has been living a life of luxury and prestige for years, actively cultivating his posh outward appearance to attract investors. Image is everything when trying to inspire the trust of high net worth individual and institutional investors. Like Bernie Madoff, Cohen has a palacious home in an impressive neighborhood, an office in a celebrity and wealth-filled location, heavy involvement in industry organizations and on influential boards, and a company with an elusive and complex web of financial dealings.
Despite losses to his investors, Cohen has maintained his extravagant lifestyle and image. He has been a contortionist when it comes to keeping the secret of his true financial picture, creating a complex web of companies and dealings, but how long can this continue?
Bradley Cohen’s company, Cohen Asset Management, purports to be a private real estate investment firm that seeks to attract high net worth individual and foreign institutional investors. With hundreds of millions of dollars in complex financial transactions and loans between numerous companies and investors, how can investors guard against a Ponzi scheme or fraud?
