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SEC to be questioned about Madoff scandal - U.S. business- msnbc.com

Source: MSNBC

Jan 05, 2009

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WASHINGTON - The Securities and Exchange Commission heard rumblings about Wall Street money manager Bernard Madoff’s investment methods nearly a decade ago. Now a House panel wants to know how, despite those warnings, Madoff continued to operate without an agency investigation.

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Reechard,

Jan 06, 2009

John C. Dvorak and Leo Laporte were speculating that the SEC was too busy catching the elusive and nefarious Martha Stewart.

Billso,

Jan 06, 2009

Martha Stewart was prosecuted between 2001 and 2004. What was the SEC doing after she went to minimum security lockup?

David Mercury,

Jan 07, 2009

And ignoring the powerful Washington connected, influential, above reproach Bernie.....even though they had multiple, credible warnings over many years that he was running a giant Ponzi scheme.

Reechard,

Jan 07, 2009

@DavidMercury Indeed, that be the real scandal!

David Mercury,

Jan 07, 2009

@reechard and, of course, the fact that Bernie's niece (his compliance officer) married the SEC inspector had nothing to do with the sloppy investigation that was conducted