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Harry M. Markopolos (born October 22, 1956) is a former securities industry executive and independent financial fraud investigator for institutional investors and others seeking forensic accounting expertise.
Read More at Wikipedia ›The tale of Dallas attorney Spencer Barasch has two versions.
The official government version: As head of the Fort Worth regional office of the Securities and Exchange Commission from 1998 to 2005, Barasch declined to investigate the alleged Ponzi scheme of R. Allen Stanford and his Stanford Financial Group. Then, when Barasch finally left the SEC, he violated federal conflict-of-interest laws by going to work for Stanford.The Barasch version: His bosses at the SEC had little interest in the Stanford case, preferring to focus on accounting fraud and other financial capers instead of Ponzi schemes. Barasch simply referred the matter to other authorities. And now he's a scapegoat for the SEC's embarrassing failure to stop Stanford until his alleged Ponzi scheme grew into an international, $7.2 billion fraud.It doesn't matter which version you choose to believe. They both illustrate how alleged Ponzi schemers are usually never even investigated until they can no longer make the promised pa...February 10, 2009 12:42 PM UTC by Elizabeth MacDonaldWhy TARP Is Now a Four-Letter WordThe US Treasury and the Federal Reserve have just taken out the bazookas in th...
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