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Published 11/03/2009 by Individual.com

Madoff miss a regulators' case study

(ABIX) The US Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) should have recognised Bernard Madoff's pyramid scheme in 1992, according to the regulator's investigation summary. The SEC received a number of tips about the $US65m Ponzi scheme in the years...

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