Category:Harry Markopolos

Harry Markopolos 

Whistleblower who exposed the Madoff investment scandal
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Date of birth	22 October 1956 Erie
Country of citizenship	United States of America
Residence	Whitman
Educated at	Loyola University Maryland Boston College Cathedral Preparatory School Sellinger School of Business and Management
Occupation	investor investigator forensic accountant chief investment officer whistleblower
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Harry M. Markopolos (born October 22, 1956) is an American former securities industry executive and a forensic accounting and financial fraud investigator.

From 1999 to 2008, Markopolos uncovered evidence that suggested that Bernie Madoff's wealth management business was a huge Ponzi scheme. In 2000, 2001, and 2005, Markopolos alerted the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of his views, supplying supporting documents, but each time the SEC ignored him or gave his evidence only a cursory investigation. Madoff was finally revealed to be a fraud in December 2008, when his sons contacted the Federal Bureau of Investigation. After admitting to operating the largest private Ponzi scheme in history, Madoff was sentenced in 2009 to 150 years in prison

In 2010, Markopolos' book on uncovering the Madoff fraud, No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller, was published.^[1][2] Markopolos has criticized the SEC for failing to discover the Madoff fraud despite repeated tips, and for failing to investigate properly the larger companies it supervised.^[3] Critics of Markopolos have called him obsessive, a self-publicist, and self-righteous, and some questioned whether he was motivated by a financial bounty, which he denied.^[4][5][6] egory:Investors from the United States

1. ↑ Markopolos, Harry (2010) No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller, Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 978-0-470-55373-2.
2. ↑ Bandler, James (2010-02-25). Harry Markopolos: The man who hunted Madoff. Archive.fortune.com. Retrieved on 2016-03-15.
3. ↑ Levin, Bess (April 13, 2010). The Madoff Hunter. The New York Observer. Retrieved on April 30, 2010.
4. ↑ The man who blew the whistle on Bernard Madoff | Business | The Guardian
5. ↑ (March 11, 2010). "Harry Markopolos, SEC Chairman?". Wall Street Journal.
6. ↑ Harry Markopolos Considered 'Taking Out' Bernie Madoff