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...Bernie Madoff is like an elderly relative who brought shame and notoriety to his family and to his profession. The community at large can not get enough news about...
...want to understand what kind of environment would allow his decades long financial fraud to thrive. We want to understand why sophisticated investors chose to believe that any money manager could have a multi-year string of returns which is a near statistical impossibility. (See pictures of Bernard Madoff's demise...
...sure this is an unusual flow of Ponzis," says Katherine Addelman, SEC regional director in Atlanta. "But since Madoff, there's a lot more coverage. These cases are moving to the front page, and because of it more people are getting skeptical of these investments," she says. "They're more willing now to give information to us." Some Ponzi crooks are either so brazen or stupid, Addelman says, "they even solicit SEC staff members." (See pictures of TIME's Wall Street covers...
...post-Madoff enforcement on Ponzis, Heine says there's been no official push to go after Ponzi schemers. "We go after them as they come in," he said...
...Robert Chew is a former investor with Madoff via a feeder fund. He lives in Colorado...