Harry Markopolos spent nearly a decade telling the Securities and Exchange Commission that Bernie Madoff’s returns were too good to be true. The SEC more or less ignored Markopolos, a securities analyst and forensic accountant. The greatest Ponzi scheme in history, as a result, rolled on for years, ultimately stealing billions of dollars from investors, large and small, before it all came crashing down in 2008.
Markopolos has written a first-rate memoir of his lonely one-man investigation into Madoff’s $65 billion fraud: No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller