Harry Markopolos Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Harry M. Markopolos (born October 22, 1956) is an American former securities industry executive and an independent forensic accounting and financial fraud investigator.Markopolos discovered evidence over nine years suggesting that Bernard Madoff's wealth management business, Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, was actually a massive Ponzi scheme. In 2000, 2001, and 2005, Markopolos alerted the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of the fraud, supplying supporting documents, but each time, the SEC ignored him or only gave his evidence a cursory investigation. Madoff was finally uncovered as a fraud in December 2008, when his sons contacted the Federal Bureau of Investigation. After admitting to operating the largest Ponzi scheme in history, Madoff was sentenced in 2009 to 150 years in prison. In 2010, Markopolos's book on uncovering the Madoff fraud was published, titled No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller.Markopolos has been scathing in his criticism of the SEC for both failing to discover the Madoff fraud despite repeated tips, and for failing to investigate properly the larger companies it supervised. He described the private moments he had with victims of the Madoff fraud as: "Heartfelt, gut-wrenching things. People trying to commit suicide or losing loved ones who’ve died of heartbreak."
I needed a tutor in 7th and 8th grade. Whatever it was, I was having big problems with algebra.
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I felt like I was an army of one. I was a $50 billion failure. I wasn't good enough or smart enough to outmaneuver the SEC, the press wasn't listening to me, and I had no other avenue.
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Fact
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His father Louis and two uncles ran a chain of 12 Arthur Treacher's Fish an Chips restaurants in Maryland and Delaware.
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His autobiographical account, "No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller", is the basis for the making of the documentary-film profile, Chasing Madoff (2010).
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He and wife Faith, who also works in the financial industry conducting due diligence of portfolio managers, have three young sons, two of whom are twins.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Chasing Madoff
2010
Documentary book "No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller"
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Chasing Madoff
2010
Documentary "No One Would Listen"
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Exposed with Deborah Norville
2017
TV Series documentary
Himself
Fox and Friends
2012
TV Series
Himself
The Early Show
2011
TV Series
Himself
Tavis Smiley
2010-2011
TV Series
Himself
Real Time with Bill Maher
2011
TV Series
Himself
Chasing Madoff
2010
Documentary
Himself
The Daily Show
2010
TV Series
Himself
60 Minutes
2009
TV Series documentary
Himself - Whistleblower (segment "The Man Who Knew")
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
Plunder: The Crime of Our Time
2009
Documentary
Himself - Independent Financial Fraud Investigator
60 Minutes
2009
TV Series documentary
Himself - Whistleblower (segment "The Man Who Knew")
Frontline
2009
TV Series documentary
Himself
Scam of the Century: Bernie Madoff's Crime & Punishment
2008
TV Movie documentary
Himself - Madoff Whistleblower
Known for movies
Chasing Madoff (2010) as Writer
60 Minutes (2009) as Himself - Whistleblower (segment "The Man Who Knew")
$2 Million
