Browsing Tag
Bernard Madoff
5 posts
The SEC and its culture of regulatory capture
But dig a little deeper and you’ll find the Stanford case is the bigger outrage by far, not so much for the scam itself, but for the shocking behavior of the regulators tasked with preventing it. Where Madoff was enabled by SEC bureaucratic incompetence, Stanford was empowered by overt SEC indifference.
Bernard Madoff, the Mafia, and the Friends of Michael Milken
In 2005, Patrick Byrne, the CEO of Overstock.com and future Deep Capture investigative reporter, began a public crusade…
February 3, 2009
Bernard Madoff, the Mafia, and Naked Short Selling
Bernard L. Madoff was once the chairman of the NASDAQ stock exchange. He was one of the most…
January 19, 2009
A Ponzi Scheme that is Bigger than Bernard Madoff’s
Bernard L. Madoff’s fraud is “stunning,” says the SEC. It is a crime of “epic proportions.” But, says…
December 13, 2008
A Ponzi Scheme that is Bigger than Bernard Madoff's
Bernard L. Madoff’s fraud is “stunning,” says the SEC. It is a crime of “epic proportions.” But, says…
December 13, 2008