{"id":14717,"date":"2010-03-25T08:22:35","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T12:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=14717"},"modified":"2010-03-25T08:22:35","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T12:22:35","slug":"the-man-who-blew-the-whistle-on-bernard-madoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2010\/the-man-who-blew-the-whistle-on-bernard-madoff.html","title":{"rendered":"The man who blew the whistle on Bernard Madoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian &#8211; In a small Massachusetts town, American fund manager Harry Markopolos  lived in fear of his life. For three years, he carried a Smith &amp;  Wesson revolver, checked under his car for bombs and avoided walking  along dark shadowy streets. A self-confessed maths geek, he had  unravelled the secret of Wall Street&#8217;s biggest conman.<\/p>\n<p>A belatedly  celebrated whistleblower who was ignored by everybody, Markopolos  tried, umpteen times, to raise the alarm about Bernard Madoff&#8217;s $65bn  (\u00a343bn) Ponzi scheme which imploded at the end of 2008, leaving  thousands of charities, hedge funds, pensioners and Hollywood stars  bereft of billions of dollars. Dismissed as a misguided obsessive until  Madoff&#8217;s eventual confession, he became increasingly anxious for his  safety.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/2010\/mar\/24\/bernard-madoff-whistleblower-harry-markopolos\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian &#8211; In a small Massachusetts town, American fund manager Harry Markopolos lived in fear of his life. For three years, he carried a Smith &amp; Wesson revolver, checked under his car for bombs and avoided walking along dark shadowy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14718,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14717\/revisions\/14718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}