About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 45. Chapters: Abby Joseph Cohen, Andrew K. Golden, Bernardo Hernandez Gonzalez, Bill Gross, Bill Miller (finance), Bill Redpath, Charles Brandes, Charles E. Haldeman, Cory Burnell, David Darst, David Hathorn, David R. Beatty, Douglas G. Ober, Ejnar Knudsen, Eugene Morse (accountant), Francis Longstaff, Frank J. Fabozzi, G.E.S. de Silva, Gregg S. Fisher, Harry Markopolos, Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg, Irving Kahn, J. J. Jelincic, James Murren, James S. Kinnear, Jeremy Gutsche, John Bollinger, John M. Longo, John Templeton, Keith Muth, Kenneth Fisher, Lewis A. Sanders, Manu Daftary, Mario Gabelli, Matthew Noel Murray, Nabil Al Busaidi, Nguyen Xuan Minh, Nigel Hart, Nikesh Arora, Prem Watsa, Raj Aggarwal, Ranji H. Nagaswami, Robert Haugen, Seymour Schulich, Stanley Block, Stephen T. McClellan, Susan Decker, Tate Reeves, Thomas J. Healey, Vikas Kohli, William H. Donaldson. Excerpt: Harry M. Markopolos (born October 22, 1956) is a former securities industry executive, and an independent forensic accounting and financial fraud investigator. Markopolos discovered evidence over nine years that Bernard Madoff's wealth management business was actually a massive Ponzi scheme. Beginning in 2000, Markopolos alerted the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of this formally more than once, but the SEC did not take any action. Madoff was finally uncovered as a fraud in December 2008, when his sons contacted the Federal Bureau of Investigation. After admitting to operating the largest Ponzi scheme in history, Madoff was sentenced in 2009 to 150 years in prison. In 2010, Markopolos's book on uncovering the Madoff fraud was published, titled No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller. Markopolos has been scathing in his criticism of the SEC for both failing to discover the Madoff fraud despite repeated tips, and for failing to...
