Comments on: Harry Markopolos really did have the goods on Bernie Madoff

By: steve68

steve68 — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:22:42 +0000

Well Markopolos too smart relative to the SEC.

Just imagine if you're the SEC will you check Bernie and risk antagonising a big shot who might in future be your employer?

The SEC big boss there also want to protect his personal interest rather than the public interest. If those get cheated, please ensure that SEC boss get chop - break his rice bowl...

By: Joshua M Brown

Joshua M Brown — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 16:34:27 +0000

little known facts about harry markopolos

Fact 2: Markopolos once slept in a dumpster in the East 60's while staking out Bernie Madoff on the weekend after a triple witching options expiration, just to have first dibs on the shredded trade confirmations.

http://thereformedbroker.com/2009/01/11/things-you-should-know-about-harry-markopoulos/

By: miltthestilt

miltthestilt — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 02:57:25 +0000

Oye Ve!!!!!!!!!!!! Ithis story keeps getting better…... this epic Ponzi scheme of Madoff (Made-Off) continues to fascinate the world. ….A true financial holocaust… He managed to lose or steal 50 billion dollars, which can't be easy to do no matter how hard you try….. with a busy looking stock-trading operation occupying the 19th floor, of his building…. and the computers and paperwork of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities (his name is on the door remember!) filled the 18th floor and on the 17th floor was Bernie Madoff's fraud center, occupied by another two dozen staff members but who must have been blinded by some sort of quantitative trading wizardry in order produce that mind-numbing 10-12%… lol ….It was called the "hedge fund" floor, where the scam was conceived…….. and nobody else knew?????????????? .not the other 2 dozen employees who worked there?????? I smell rotten lox..I actually feel bad for Charles Ponzi ..Ponzi scammers will have to change their name to “Madoff schemers”.and Mr.Ponzi will disappear into the federal prison files….... in researching more about hedge funds I came across a few books that were also fascinating... Hedge Fund Trading Secrets Revealed by Robert Dorfman... and Confessions of a Street Addict by Jim Cramer....both these books take you on a great ride about hedge funds how they make and lose millions and expose many other scam practices in this game and Dorfman actually teaches his strategies.

By: pacificgatepost

pacificgatepost — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 04:20:02 +0000

NO ONE WANTED TO “KNOW”

From New York to Geneva, corruption is rampant and complex on Wall Street.
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http://pacificgatepost.blogspot.com/2008/12/is-madoff-really-anomaly.html
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..... MADOFF IS NOT AN ANOMALY

By: winstonthegreat

winstonthegreat — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:25:22 +0000

The SEC should stand for Scamlovers Enforcement Club. It's unbelievable that these clowns exist in helping conivers skirt the system rather than champion full enforcement and compliance of the securities laws that are suppose to protect the honest investor.

This administration is worse than Jimmy walker or Tammnay Hall.

By: plukasiak

plukasiak — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:00:35 +0000

For some investors and fund-of-funds managers, the regulatory imprimatur that the SEC gave Madoff's brokerage may have communicated confidence in the investment products he sold on the side. But isn't this the essence of the whole "repeal Glass-Steagell"/create vast 'bank holding companies' mindset -- the "branding" or transfer of reputation from one product to another? Indeed, when people think "brokerage" and "broker", its not the buying and selling of stocks that people think about; rather its 'money management' and advice on what to buy and sell.

By: banzai7

banzai7 — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:58:12 +0000

The problem is that the dopes at the SEC did not understand what this guy was saying.