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Harry Markopolos Harry M. Markopolos or Harry Markopoulos (born October 22, 1956 in Erie, Pennsylvania) is a former securities industry executive turned independent financial fraud investigator for institutional investors and others seeking forensic accounting expertise. He has risen to prominence as an early and unheeded whistleblower of suspected securities fraud by Bernard Madoff, tipping off the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) repeatedly both orally and in writing starting in 1999, when he argued that it was not legally possible for Madoff to deliver the returns he had claimed to deliver.[Wikipedia: 2009]
Post Modern Security Analysis
By John Schroy, on September 9th, 2009 |

In security analysis, it is important to get the facts, before forming an opinion. Effective collaborative research calls for rigorous separation of the fact-gathering from the decision-making stages of the process. This article shows how fact-gathering of open-source information on the Internet could have saved investors from the Madoff calamity.
This is Part Eight in a series on Post Modern Security Analysis.
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