No one would listen [[electronic resource] ] : a true financial thriller / / Harry Markopolos with Frank Casey ... [et al.] ; [foreword by David Einhorn]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910781054403321
• Autore: Markopolos Harry
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley, c2010
• ISBN: 0-470-62576-7; 0-470-62536-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (394 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): CaseyFrank
• Disciplina: 364.16/3092
• Soggetti: Ponzi schemes - United States; Investment advisors - Corrupt practices - United States; Hedge funds - United States; Securities fraud - United States - Prevention
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Who's Who""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1: A Red Wagon in a Field of Snow""; ""Chapter 2: The Slot Machine That Kept Coming Up Cherries""; ""Chapter 3: Falling Down the Rabbit Hole""; ""Chapter 4: Finding More Peters (to Pay Paul)""; ""Chapter 5: The Goddess of Justice Wears a Blindfold""; ""Chapter 6: Didn't Anyone Want a Pulitzer?""; ""Chapter 7: More Red Flags Than the Soviet Union""; ""Chapter 8: Closing the Biggest Barn Door in Wall Street History""; ""Chapter 9: Soaring Like an Eagle Surrounded by Turkeys""""Epilogue Mr. Pinkslip Goes to Washington""; ""Appendix A: Madoff Tops Charts; Skeptics Ask How""; ""Appendix B: The World's Largest Hedge Fund Is a Fraud""; ""Appendix C: Online Resource Guide for the Classroom and Beyond""; ""A Note on Sources""; ""About the Author""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Index""
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 crimin