Posts Tagged ‘SEC’

It’s official, the SEC Sux!

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Yep, that's what Jon Stewart said at the top of his show where he introduced Harry Markopolos on his March 8th show. Markopolos is the fellow who (back in 2000) blew the whistle on Bernie Madoff.

The man who spent nearly a decade trying to blow the whistle on what appears to be the largest Ponzi scheme in history has achieved a kind of hero status within the investment world. He is poised to reap both fame and fortune from a disaster that has cost the investors of Bernard L. Madoff as much as $50 billion.

Now Markopolos is telling his story in his book, No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller.

The Perfessor