Question: Which former financier was convicted under making false statements?
Context: Bernard Lawrence "Bernie" Madoff ( ; born April 29, 1938) is an American fraudster and a former stockbroker, investment advisor, and financier.  He is the former non-executive chairman of the NASDAQ stock market, and the admitted operator of a Ponzi scheme that is considered the largest financial fraud in U.S. history.  Prosecutors estimated the size of the fraud to be $64.8 billion, based on the amounts in the accounts of Madoff's 4,800 clients as of November 30, 2008. Making false statements () is the common name for the United States federal crime laid out in Section 1001 of Title 18 of the United States Code, which generally prohibits knowingly and willfully making false or fraudulent statements, or concealing information, in "any matter within the jurisdiction" of the federal government of the United States, even by .  A number of notable people have been convicted under the section, including Martha Stewart, Rod Blagojevich, Scooter Libby, Bernard Madoff, and Jeffrey Skilling. Louis Jay "Lou" Pearlman (June 19, 1954 – August 19, 2016) was an American record producer and fraudster.  He was the manager of successful 1990s boy bands such as Backstreet Boys and NSYNC.  In 2006, he was accused of running one of the largest and longest-running Ponzi schemes in history, leaving more than $300 million in debts.  After being apprehended, he pleaded guilty to conspiracy, money laundering, and making false statements during a bankruptcy proceeding.  In 2008, Pearlman was convicted and sentenced to up to 25 years in prison.  He died in federal custody in 2016. Courtney Stadd (born October 1954) was President George W. Bush's transition team's director regarding the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) during 2000 and 2001.  He left NASA in 2003 to return to Capitol Solutions, a management consulting firm with aerospace clients seeking government contracts.  In 2009 Stadd was convicted for both using his government job at NASA to serve his own financial interests and also for making false statements, and served three years in prison during the aftermath. Lies, on their own, are not sufficient evidence of a crime though in some situations they may themselves be a crime—making false statements, fraud, false advertising, perjury.  However, lies may indicate that the defendant is aware of his own guilt, and the prosecution may rely on the fact that the defendant has lied as supplementary to other evidence. Robert William Ney (born July 5, 1954) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Ohio.  In 2007, he was convicted on charges of corruption and sentenced to 30 months in jail.  A Republican, Ney represented Ohio's 18th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 until November 3, 2006, when he resigned.  Ney's resignation took place after he pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy and making false statements in relation to the Jack Abramoff Indian lobbying scandal.  Before he pleaded guilty, Ney was identified in the guilty pleas of Jack Abramoff, former Tom DeLay deputy chief of staff Tony Rudy, former DeLay press secretary Michael Scanlon and former Ney chief of staff Neil Volz for receiving lavish gifts in exchange for political favors. Tarek Mehanna is an American pharmacist convicted of conspiracy to provide material support to al Qaeda, providing material support to terrorists (and conspiracy to do so), conspiracy to commit murder in a foreign country, conspiracy to make false statements to the FBI, and two counts of making false statements.  He was sentenced in April 2012 to 17 years in federal prison. Miranda Agnes Jayne Grell (born June 1978) is a barrister and former Labour Party councillor for the London Borough of Waltham Forest.  She was the first person to be found guilty of making false statements under the Representation of the People Act 1983, having made false allegations of paedophilia against her political opponent, Barry Smith, during an election campaign.  Grell was banned for holding public office for three years as a result. Rita Marie Lavelle (born 1946) is a United States and California State Republican political figure.  In 1984, Lavelle was convicted on federal charges of perjury related to an investigation into misuse of the United States Environmental Protection Agency's "Superfund" money during her tenure with the agency, and irregularities at the Stringfellow Acid Pits, a major hazardous waste site.  The Lavelle incident was labeled "Garbagegate" by the newspapers at the time.  In 2004, Lavelle was convicted on federal charges of one count of wire fraud and two counts of making false statements to the F.B.I. Lavelle committed these crimes in her personal business of environmental consultation. Pickering v. Board of Education, 391 U.S. 563 (1968), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that in the absence of proof of the teacher knowingly or recklessly making false statements the teacher had a right to speak on issues of public importance without being dismissed from his or her position.  The case was later distinguished by "Garcetti v. Ceballos", 547 U.S. 410 (2006), where the Court held that statements by public employees made pursuant to their employment have no First Amendment protection.
Answer: Bernard Madoff