Harry Markopolos, the 53-year-old Boston accountant who spent nearly a decade trying to alert regulators and investors of Bernie Madoff’s $65 billion Ponzi scheme, writes in his new book “No One Would Listen“, of how he and his family lived under a “death sentence” for ten years.
Markopolos tells CNBC how he’d always carry guns and check underneath his vehicle for bombs before getting in. “I grew eyes in back of my head”, he said.
Believing Madoff’s client list included drug cartels and organized crime, Markopolos went to extremes to protect himself and his family, even going so far as to devise a plan to kill Madoff.
Here is Markopolos, and his former colleague Frank Casey — who helped Markopolos in his pursuit to bring Madoff to the attention of SEC (Casey first brought Madoff to Markopolos’s attention after meeting with Access International’s Thierry de La Villehuchet in New York back in 2000) — discussing what it was like to live under that “death sentence.”
Markopolos on how he grew increasingly frustrated, angry at the SEC, eventually losing faith in the agency.
