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The World's Largest Hedge Fund Is a Fraud

Harry Markopolos · 2005

"Bernard Madoff's impossibly smooth returns are mathematically inconsistent with any real strategy; the fund is either front-running or a Ponzi scheme."

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In 1999, financial analyst Harry Markopolos realized that Bernie Madoff's impossibly consistent returns could not be replicated mathematically. He alerted the SEC multiple times that Madoff was running a massive Ponzi scheme, but was ignored for nearly a decade.

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