hf-implode.com - 11/2/2009
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"Madoff offered two approaches to evading investigators. Either make it hard for them to find documents by creating a convoluted and scattered paper trail. Or the approach he favored: Be as cooperative as possible.
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FOX Business Video: Interview with the SEC’s Mary Schapiro
securitiesdocket.com 8/28/2009 — FOX Business’ Liz Claman interviews SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro on a range of topics, including plans for reviews, new regulations, and “significant” growth in the SEC’s budget and staff.
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NBC Video: Madoff Mocks the SEC’s Incompetence
securitiesdocket.com 11/2/2009 — NBC’s Peter Alexander reports on SEC Inspector General David Kotz’s jailhouse interview with Bernard Madoff. Madoff mocked the SEC’s incompetence in the interview, and said he was stunned by its inability to catch him.
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SEC’s Schapiro Calls Derivatives Data ‘Critical’ for Probes
bloomberg.com 8/28/2009 — Aug. 28 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Schapiro said it’s “critical” for regulators to gain more access to information on derivative transactions in order to police market abuses. Regulators need “information ...
Chais Argues SEC “Provided Credibility to Madoff”
securitiesdocket.com 10/22/2009 — First, Madoff victims seized on the SEC’s admitted failures in the Madoff case, which were further documented by the SEC Inspector General’s scathing report on the matter, as the basis for a lawsuit in federal court seeking millions in damages. Now, even a defendant in a Madoff-related SEC ...
Fiscal Year 2009: The SEC’s Year from Hell
securitiesdocket.com 10/14/2009 — For the Securities and Exchange Commission, which operates on a fiscal year that ends every September, Oct. 1, 2009, could not come soon enough. It seems almost beyond dispute that the agency’s fiscal 2009 was the most dismal in its history, and perhaps the most transformational.
Now it ...
SEC Charges Two Madoff Computer Programmers
securitiesdocket.com 23 days ago — In addition to their arrests today, two computer programmers who worked for Bernard Madoff were also sued by the SEC for their role in helping Madoff cover up his fraud for more than 15 years. The SEC’s complaint alleges that Jerome O’Hara and George Perez provided the technical ...
Securities Docket A.M. News Wire for 2009-09-03
securitiesdocket.com 9/3/2009 —
Madoff Claimed He Was On "Short List" To Be SEC Chairman http://bit.ly/W00MU #
Schapiro: Statement on the Release of the Executive Summary of the IG's Report regarding the Madoff Fraud http://bit.ly/17nKfA #
Executive Summary of SEC IG’s Madoff Report Now Available ...
Reuters Video: Schapiro’s Newly Aggressive SEC
securitiesdocket.com 8/7/2009 — In this Reuters video, two former SEC officials, Howard Elisofon and former SEC Commissioner Paul Atkins, discuss SEC issues such as whether current SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro’s aggressive stance will be effective, and the concept of self-funding.
Fixing the SEC
ritholtz.com 10/1/2009 — The problems at the SEC were decades in the making.
Essentially the largest prosecutor’s office in the country, they have been undercut at every turn: Their staffing was far too small to handle the jurisdiction (Wall Street and corporate ...