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exchanges.nyse.com - 2/4/2009

How a Blog Might Have Stopped Madoff

— exchanges.nyse.com — Perhaps the biggest irony of the Bernard Madoff case is that Harry Markopolos, the investor-turned-investigator who for... years warned other investors and the Securities and Exchange Commission that Mr. Madoff was running a Ponzi scheme, today is ... (more) How a Blog Might Have Stopped Madoff

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epicureandealmaker.blogspot.com - 2/13/2009

To Catch a Thief

— epicureandealmaker.blogspot.com — I'm very well acquainted with the seven deadly sins I keep a busy schedule trying to fit... them in I'm proud to be a glutton, and I don't have time for sloth I'm greedy, and I'm angry, and I don't care who I cross I'm Mr. Bad Example, intruder in ... (more) To Catch a Thief

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bloomberg.com - 2/4/2009

Madoff Tipster Markopolos Cites SEC’s ‘Ineptitude’ (Update3)

— bloomberg.com — Feb. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Harry Markopolos , a former money manager who sought to convince regulators for... nine years that Bernard Madoff was a fraud, said the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission suffers from “investigative ineptitude.” Markopolos ... (more) Madoff Tipster Markopolos Cites SEC’s ‘Ineptitude’ ...

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Will Someone Please Put Out The Duchess' Hair?
Dealbreaker — ... Exchange Commission took steps on Friday to reinvigorate the agency's policing of Wall Street, two days after a congressional hearing chastised SEC investigators for failing to uncover Bernard Madoff's alleged $50 billion fraud. "I like to tell the staff we are going to act like our hair is on fire," SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro told reporters after an appearance at a conference. And here I was, convinced that the burning smell of hair was a brain tumor. SEC chief says agency to act like "hair is on fire" [Reuters] ...

Mary Schapiro Begins to Talk the Talk
gary-weiss.com — As I say every time I write about this person, I was not thrilled by the appointment of Mary Schapiro to head the SEC, and I dearly wish she would step down and some real agent of change would step into the job. Still, I have to admit that Mary Schapiro is beginning to talk the talk. She was quoted today as saying that the agency needs to act as if its "hair is on fire." "I like to tell the staff we are going to act like our hair is on fire," SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro told reporters after an appearance at a conference. ...