{"id":9417,"date":"2008-12-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"mass-investor-saw-inside-madoff-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2008\/mass-investor-saw-inside-madoff-scam.html","title":{"rendered":"Mass. investor saw inside Madoff scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press &#8211; His repeated warnings that Wall Street money manager Bernard Madoff was running a giant Ponzi scheme have cast Harry Markopolos as an unheeded prophet. <\/p>\n<p>But people who know or worked with Markopolos say it wasn&#8217;t prescience that helped him foresee the collapse of Madoff&#8217;s alleged $50 billion fraud. Instead, they say diligence and a strong moral sense drove his quixotic, nine-year quest to alert regulators about Madoff.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;He followed through on everything he ever did. He never let up,&quot; said his mother, Georgia Markopolos, in an interview Thursday. &quot;Some kids just let it go if it&#8217;s too hard, but he wouldn&#8217;t do that.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;He feels very sorry for these people that got taken,&quot; she added. &quot;It wouldn&#8217;t have happened if they would have listened to him long ago.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5ihAaFD-AY7JK68kC36YAT7cA_xIgD955PDQ00\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press &#8211; His repeated warnings that Wall Street money manager Bernard Madoff was running a giant Ponzi scheme have cast Harry Markopolos as an unheeded prophet. But people who know or worked with Markopolos say it wasn&#8217;t prescience [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[9417],"class_list":["post-9417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-signet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}