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[[File:Madoff performance.png|450px|thumb|center|Um, [[credit officer|risk manager]]s? ''HELLO''. Hello? Anyone there?]] | [[File:Madoff performance.png|450px|thumb|center|Um, [[credit officer|risk manager]]s? ''HELLO''. Hello? Anyone there?]] | ||
}}Wall Street grandee, former chairman of the NASDAQ and perpetrator of the [[ponzi scheme]] that almost certainly qualifies greatest fraud in history of this planet, and a walking advertisement for the power of cognitive dissonance: Not only did the heroic {{author|Harry Markopolos}} not repeatedly alert the [[SEC]] that Madoff was a fraud over the decade leading up to [[Madoff]]’s ''confession'' — note: they didn’t ''catch'' him: he handed himself in — but [[hedge fund]] pioneer {{author|Edward Thorp}} identified that Madoff was a fraud when a friend asked him to review Madoff’s returns in ''1992''. | }}Wall Street grandee, former chairman of the NASDAQ and perpetrator of the [[ponzi scheme]] that almost certainly qualifies greatest fraud in history of this planet, and a walking advertisement for the power of cognitive dissonance: Not only did the heroic {{author|Harry Markopolos}} not repeatedly alert the [[SEC]] that Madoff was a fraud over the decade leading up to [[Madoff]]’s ''confession'' — note: they didn’t ''catch'' him: he handed himself in — but [[hedge fund]] pioneer {{author|Edward Thorp}} identified that Madoff was a fraud when a friend asked him to review Madoff’s returns in ''1992''. |