Harry Markopolos

Secret Informant Surfaces in BNY Currency FX Probe

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USA, White-collar crime, Harry Markopolos, Financial industry, Qui tam or False Claims Act
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Carrick Mollenkamp – October 21, 2011

For a decade, Grant Wilson toiled on a small trading desk at Bank of New York Mellon Corp. in Pittsburgh, buying and selling currencies for the bank's biggest clients.

Mr. Wilson also had another job: For the last two of those years he was a secret whistleblower, assisting currency-trading investigations of BNY Mellon, according to people familiar with the matter.

Review: "Chasing Madoff": A hero by the numbers

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White-collar crime, Movies, SEC, Harry Markopolos
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Linda Barnard, Movies Writer – August 25, 2011

As the lights came up in the Varsity theatre after Chasing Madoff, the opening night film at the Toronto Jewish Film Festival in May, a tall man in a rumpled tan jacket stood in front of the screen and uncomfortably received a standing ovation from the packed theatre.

The audience had just finished watching a story about him, Harry Markopolos, someone who could be described as the world’s most tenacious man. The 54-year-old Boston accountant and financial investigator spent 10 years struggling to make the U.S. government hear and act on his assertion that Bernie Madoff was a crook and running a Ponzi scheme to defraud investors.

Madoff Whistle-Blower Feared Mob

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Organized crime, White-collar crime, Harry Markopolos, Financial industry
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Rick Warner – Aug 24, 2011

Harry Markopolos knew right away that Bernie Madoff was a crook.While working for Rampart Investment Management in 1999, Markopolos was told about a money manager whose consistent profits seemed too good to be true.

When Markopolos looked at Madoff’s financial records, he saw that the returns rose steadily at a 45-degree angle, with none of the wide swings usually associated with big-time investors.

Bernie Madoff Whistleblower gets standing ovation

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White-collar crime, Harry Markopolos, Bernie Madoff, Financial industry
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3

Etan Vlessing – May 6, 2011

Harry Markopolos doesn't feel like a hero, despite earning a standing ovation in Toronto Thursday night for his quest to uncover Bernie Madoff's $50 billion ponzi scheme.

"Heroes are brave. They don't show fear. And I did," Markopolos said after "Chasing Madoff," Canadian filmmaker Jeff Prosserman's portrait of the Madoff whistleblower, received a North American debut to kick off the Toronto Jewish Film Festival.

Madoff whistleblower tries new shield tactic

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USA, White-collar crime, Harry Markopolos, Financial industry
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Ross Kerber and Tom Hals – February 4, 2011

Delaware touts itself as a business-friendly haven, but a new strategy by a well-known whistleblower takes the rules in an unexpected direction. Recent suits against major banks claiming they defrauded public pension funds were filed by Delaware partnerships tied to Harry Markopolos, an associate said.

Markopolos is the Massachusetts fraud investigator best known for trying to tip authorities to Bernard Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme. It is not unusual for companies to file suits seeking a share of damages that officials might recover in fraud cases.

Book Review: No-One Would Listen

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White-collar crime, Harry Markopolos, Books, Financial industry
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No-One Would ListenNo-One Would Listen

A True Financial Thriller

By Harry Markopolos

Harry Markopolos is the whistleblower who spent years trying to expose Bernie Madoff and the largest Ponzi scheme in history – but was stymied at every turn by the truly stunning incompetence and passivity of the U.S. regulator, the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC).

Book Review: Madoff Whistleblower Markopolos Tells His Story

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White-collar crime, Harry Markopolos, Bernie Madoff, Books, Financial industry
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Review by James Pressley – March 1, 2010

Blank stares, disdain and tears. Harry Markopolos encountered all three during his nine-year struggle to convince the Securities and Exchange Commission that Bernard Madoff’s returns were mathematically impossible.

SEC officers didn’t grasp the numbers until the Ponzi scheme had swelled to $65 billion, as Markopolos shows in “No One Would Listen,” a disturbing firsthand account of his quest to expose one of the most powerful men on Wall Street.

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