You Wanna Be Mad? Harry Markopolous Is Gonna Make You F-in' Irate!

Mild mannered math nerds don't usually don't achieve folk hero status, but Harry Markopolous is a guy who deserves a Depression-era ditty written about him. For those of you who didn't see him shaking his fist and raising his voice in a congressional hearing a couple of weeks back, or missed 60 Minutes last night because you were too busy watching idiots get punched in the nuts on AFV, Harry Markopolous is the guy who started blowing the whistle on Bernie Madoff back in 2001. For eight years he duly alerted the SEC that Madoff was running a scam, and for eight years they ignored him, indtead focusing their resources on public enemy number one Martha Stewart. For all Stewart's crimes, her alleged insider trading is the least egregious. But Madoff got off. And would have kept getting off if everything remained peaches and cream in the stock market. If you didn't watch 60 Minutes, you owe it to yourself to see for yourself what a giant fuckup this was on the part of the government. Or was it a fuckup? Was the SEC in bed with Madoff? Stranger things have happened.