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[STARRED REVIEW] Markopolos, the whistleblower who filed five unheeded complaints against Ponzi king Bernie Madoff over nine years, has produced an astonishing true-life whodunit set amidst the personalities, plots, and international intrigue of Wall Street. Having collected damning information on money manager Madoff-the respected co-founder of NASDAQ who ran the largest financial scam in history-since 1999, Markopolos's work as a chartered financial analyst and certified fraud examiner, aided by an industry journalist and two colleagues from his days as a derivatives portfolio manager, lays bare the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) as a tragically inept regulating agency that "didn't give a rat's ass about protecting investors," and seemed to consider Madoff "just another guy cutting some corners." Realizing he had not one but two powerful opponents-"Madoff and this nonfunctioning agency"-Markopolos refused to give up, despite fearing for his life and his family; accordingly, he transmits his team's determination and fascination in contagious detail. The hows and whys of Madoff's eventual arrest, Markopolos's subsequent appearances before Congress, and the carnival of press coverage makes a satisfying conclusion to this strange epic; Markopolos also includes complete documentation of his formal submissions to the SEC, plus his recommendations for much-needed reform at the agency. (Mar.) (PublishersWeekly.com, March 29, 2010)
"…a salutary tale and the detailed regulatory lessons offered in the epilogue deserve attention." (Financial Times, March 2010)
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Harry Markopolos and his team of financial sleuths discuss first-hand how they cracked the Madoff Ponzi scheme
No One Would Listen is the thrilling story of how the Harry Markopolos, a little-known number cruncher from a Boston equity derivatives firm, and his investigative team uncovered Bernie Madoff's scam years before it made headlines, and how they desperately tried to warn the government, the industry, and the financial press.
Page by page, Markopolos details his pursuit of the greatest financial criminal in history, and reveals the massive fraud, governmental incompetence, and criminal collusion that has changed thousands of lives forever-as well as the world's financial system.
- The only book to tell the story of Madoff's scam and the SEC's failings by those who saw both first hand
- Describes how Madoff was enabled by investors and fiduciaries alike
- Discusses how the SEC missed the red flags raised by Markopolos
Despite repeated written and verbal warnings to the SEC by Harry Markopolos, Bernie Madoff was allowed to continue his operations. No One Would Listen paints a vivid portrait of Markopolos and his determined team of financial sleuths, and what impact Madoff's scam will have on financial markets and regulation for decades to come.
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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Phenomenal Book from Start to Finish,
By Jasper Taylor (Toronto (ON)) - See all my reviews
This review is from: No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller (Hardcover)
This is an outstanding book by an extraordinary individual who tirelessly kept going back to the SEC to alert them about Madoff's ponzi scheme only to be turned away on five occasions over the course of eight years (!!!). This book will make you lose all hope that any gov't agency is capable of anything other than staggering incompetence and outright stupidity. I literally read this book in two sittings - it's a perfect, suspensful mix of true crime and business. A number of Hollywood producers are lining up to acquire the rights to this book and I'm not surprised. If I could I'd give it 10 stars.
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A look inside the sewer of the financial world,
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This review is from: No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller (Hardcover)
This was an eye-opening account of the shenanigans inside the financial world and the impotence of an agency that was supposed to act as a watchdog. Kudos to Markopolos and his team for persisting in their attempt to be heard. Not only was the SEC ignoring his five attempts to make them aware that Madoff was a ponzi operator, but the media he contacted missed their chance to do what journalists are supposed to do and lost the opportunity for the story of a lifetime. Just about everyone involved dropped the ball or looked the other way. Although this has a lot of technical things about the stock market and finances, it reads like a detective novel and makes some pretty tough concepts graspable. Madoff's "empire" took down a lot of innocent people and the SEC could have stepped in years earlier and spared a lot of people a lot of grief. Markopolos' bravery has lead to an overhaul in the SEC and one would hope that the housecleaning of that agency goes far enough.
4.0 out of 5 stars
trust abuse,
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This review is from: No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller (Hardcover)
Is it any wonder that the global financial condition at present is in such a crisis? In this read, Harry Markopolis in great detail shows us that even the highly educated and seasoned professionals in the money business fall victim to not only a monuental betrayal of trust but also, against better judgement I might add, the propensity to allow greed to rule the day despite continued, detailed warnings of impending doom. Harry Markopolis is the 'Dirty Harry' of Wall Street. And as Eastwood was pegged as a hero on the streets, Markopolis is truly a hero watching the trading floors of the exchanges.We need more 'Dirty Harrys'.
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