{"id":9628,"date":"2009-01-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"inspector-general-investigating-boston-and-new-york-sec-offices-in-in-wake-of-markopolos-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2009\/inspector-general-investigating-boston-and-new-york-sec-offices-in-in-wake-of-markopolos-allegations.html","title":{"rendered":"Inspector General investigating Boston and New York SEC offices in in wake of Markopolos allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Examiner.com &#8211; David Kotz, Securities&nbsp;and Exchange Commission Inspector General, told the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services last week he was determined to learn &quot;the reasons for the SEC&#8217;s apparent failure to act&quot; on repeated warnings about Bernard Madoff&#8217;s massive $50 billion Wall Street swindle.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The SEC had first been warned about Madoff in 1999 and again in greater detail in 2005 by Harry Markopolos, a Boston accountant and securities consultant.&nbsp; Markopolos noted several dozen &quot;red flags&quot; in a 19-page memorandum he prepared for the SEC that should have triggered agency interest in Madoff&#8217;s ponzi scheme.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Markopolos, a former U.S. Army Special Operations commander who led clandestine teams in Europe and Africa in the mid-1990&#8217;s, had made it easy for SEC officials by titling his 2005 report <em>The World&#8217;s Largest Hedge Fund is a Fraud.<\/em>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-1969-Boston-Progressive-Examiner~y2009m1d13-Inspector-General-investigating-Boston-and-New-York-SEC-offices-in-wake-of-Markopolos-allegations\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Examiner.com &#8211; David Kotz, Securities&nbsp;and Exchange Commission Inspector General, told the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services last week he was determined to learn &quot;the reasons for the SEC&#8217;s apparent failure to act&quot; on repeated warnings about Bernard Madoff&#8217;s massive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[180,5715,5714,4331,100,5712,5309,5719,797,5711,5718,5713,4248,1951,5083,5717,5716,4464],"class_list":["post-9628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-accountant","tag-apparent-failure","tag-army-special-operations","tag-bernard-madoff","tag-boston","tag-david-kotz","tag-europe","tag-exchange-commission","tag-fraud","tag-house-committee-on-financial-services","tag-inspector-general","tag-page-memorandum","tag-ponzi-scheme","tag-red-flags","tag-sec-officials","tag-swindle","tag-u-s-army","tag-wall-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9628","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}