A super-sized fraud of this magnitude was bound to happen given the lack of regulation of these off-shore entities.

- Harry Markopolos

The best thing you can say about offshore investors is that they're tax cheats in their home countries.

- Harry Markopolos

I have ... spoken to the heads of various Wall Street equity derivatives trading desks and every single one of the senior managers I spoke with told …

- Harry Markopolos

I don't know how I could have been more explicit. I gave them a roadmap and a flashlight, but they didn't go where I told them to go, they didn't loo…

- Harry Markopolos

Government has coddled, accepted, and ignored white collar crime for too long. It is time the nation woke up and realized that it's not the armed rob…

- Harry Markopolos

Madoff Securities is the world's largest Ponzi scheme.

- Harry Markopolos

Now, a 45-degree angle is not something we deal with in finance. It's something you see in a high school geometry class. Performance like that has ne…

- Harry Markopolos

We have to take personal responsibility. The government didn't do its job when the institutions needed to be held accountable. If you see something's…

- Harry Markopolos

The SEC now is 3500 chickens, and we need to get some foxes in there.

- Harry Markopolos