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Hey, Stephen, you know who else wouldn't listen? The SEC. This guy, Harry Markopoulos, went before them time after time, even though he originally spotted Madoff's scam in about five minutes.
Yeah, the world is full of people who don't want to listen.
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Here is a record of Markopoulos' efforts to get the SEC to listen:
--in Spring 1980 he filed a formal complaint with the SEC's Boston office
--After this, he was interviewed by two prominent and highly regarded reporters, one for MARHedge and the other for Barron's. The two writers outlined in scrupulous detail what was going on.
Even Elliot Spitzer, who had money invested with Madoff, ignored the articles.
--Again in 2001, Markopoulos went to the SEC.
Do you think this was easy for him? Well, consider this. There was evidence the Russian mob and the South American gangs had involvement in these schemes. Anyone exposing it could be a target.
--Markopoulos delivered the file to Spitzer in a way that he knew Spitzer would get it. No reaction from Spitzer.
--Finally in 2009 there was action and it was only because Madoff was running out of money and leveraging assets to keep going.
We will see something similar with trump. He will keep going until the bottom falls out, and that will happen, without a doubt. The craziness is already apparent.
A lot of people are going to get hurt and much of it could be avoided if a DEMOCRAT (Spitzer, as you know, was a Democrat) would take action.
