The failure to catch and stop Madoff is defacto intentional when the SEC asks the NASD whether Madoff owned options on a particular date, the NASD says he did not, and the SEC then does nothing.
James Simons is perhaps the most successful hedge fund manager of the 21st Century. Twice in the last few years he has made 2.5 billion dollars and once 1.7 billion dollars. The failure to catch and stop Madoff is defacto intentional when you find out that his company has deep suspicions about Madoff's bona fides, but you do nothing -- you do not even bother to contact his firm to learn what it knows or believes, including why it says that it has knowledge that Madoff's execution of trades is unusual.
The failure to catch and stop Madoff is defacto intentional when the use of options is central to Madoff's claimed method of trading, but he tells you he no longer uses options, yet you do nothing. The failure to catch and stop Madoff is defacto intentional again when you know his statement is at least partly a lie because you know that for some clients he is using options, yet again you do nothing.
The failure to catch and stop Madoff is defacto intentional when experts let you know there are not enough options in the world to support Madoff's claimed trading, yet, though the use of options is central to his strategy, you do nothing.
The failure to catch and stop Madoff is defacto intentional when you start an investigation of Avellino & Bienes because you fear a Ponzi scheme, but, when the money invested with Avellino and Bienes is paid back (by Madoff), you never even ask where he got the money to pay back the Avellino and Bienes investors. The failure to catch and stop Madoff is again defacto intentional when you swallow, without extensive further investigation, the preposterous claim, and/or practice, of Avellino and Bienes that they never keep any records -- no records for 440 million dollars(!!) (which in today's money is probably a billion dollars or more).
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