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How to Destroy a Nation by Undermining Trust (Part 1)What We Can Learn About Bureaucratic Incompetence from the Bernie Madoff and Uvalde DebaclesOn a December evening in 2008, Harry Markopolos told his wife Faith to go into battle drill. They had rehearsed it many times. If someone entered their premises, he would go down to the first floor to confront the intruders, armed with offensive and defensive weapons. Meanwhile, Faith would wait upstairs, fully loaded. Her instructions were simple: if anyone approached who wasn’t him, she would start shooting and continue shooting until she ran out of ammo.To the outside...

The story is about growing scandal in the banking industry centered around banks allegedly overcharging pension funds for currency transactions. The man who uncovered the alleged scam, Harry Markopolos, expects all 50 states to eventually join the suit. If the name sounds familiar that's because Markopolos was a whistleblower on the Madoff Ponzi scheme, only to have his claims ignored by the SEC for the better par of a decade.

The Boston man who served as a whistle-blower in the case against Bernard Madoff says he once was fully prepared to kill the disgraced stock broker. Former securities industry executive Harry Markopolos details in his new memoir, "No One Would Listen," how he was ready to kill Madoff if the broker ever attempted to take action against him, The Boston Herald said Sunday. "If (Madoff) contacted me and threatened me, I was going to go down to New York and take him out," Markopolos, 53, said in his book. "At that point, it would have come down to him or...

Is the author of this complaint any relation to Madoff. They appear to have the same last name.