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...Ponzimonium: financial turmoil in the wake of uncovering Ponzi schemes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Twitter and Gourmet Sex: They're in the Dictionary Now | 9/3/2009 | See Source »

...result was a missed opportunity to uncover Madoff's Ponzi scheme 16 years before Madoff confessed," the report said. "The SEC had sufficient information to inquire further and investigate Madoff for a Ponzi scheme back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEC Internal Review Cites Multiple Failures on Madoff | 9/2/2009 | See Source »

...page report, released Wednesday, outlines a series of fumbles in which SEC staff either failed to follow up on complaints, wrongly accepted Madoff's confusing and inconsistent answers to questions or in some cases involved junior staff who didn't understand options-trading and Ponzi schemes. (See the top 10 crooked CEOs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEC Internal Review Cites Multiple Failures on Madoff | 9/2/2009 | See Source »

...report said at least six complaints raised questions about Madoff's trading practices, with some even suggesting a Ponzi scheme was involved. They questioned "Madoff's incredible and highly unusual fills for equity trades, his misrepresentation of his options trading and his unusually consistent, non-volatile returns over several years," as well as how Madoff's alleged strategy and purported returns could not be duplicated by anyone else and had "no correlation to the overall equity markets in over 10 years." One tipster even nudged the SEC that "it may be of interest to you that Mr. Madoff keeps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEC Internal Review Cites Multiple Failures on Madoff | 9/2/2009 | See Source »

...When Madoff's Ponzi scheme finally collapsed in 2008, an SEC Enforcement attorney testified that it took only 'a few days' and 'a phone call to DTC' to confirm that Madoff had not placed any trades with his investors' funds," the report said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEC Internal Review Cites Multiple Failures on Madoff | 9/2/2009 | See Source »

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