• 11 Mar 2010 at 12:20 PM

If Someone Asked Harry Markopolos To Chair The SEC, Yeah, He’d Take The Job

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Marko believes he’s right for the gig because he “knows where the skeletons are buried on Wall Street.” David Weidner thinks he’s wrong for it because he’s “self-righteous,” “a little bit crazy,” and had the stones to say Tom Hanks, Matt Damon or Nicholas Cage should play him in a movie. These were securities law professor John “McEnroe” Coffee’s two cents: “He is what the commission needs only if the commission needs an emotionally unstable idiot savant. You cannot be serious.”

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  1. 1
    Posted by guest | March 11, 2010 at 12:29 PM

    Of the three I’d have to go with Cage. But Steve Buscemi could really nail it.
    -guest

  2. 2
    Posted by HeadlessHorseman | March 11, 2010 at 12:42 PM

    Just testing to see if Bess Levin’s lack of a sense of humour about herself has permanently censored me.

  3. 3
    Posted by HeadlessHorseman | March 11, 2010 at 12:44 PM

    Guess not. Maybe the post was just too big to do at one time? Here goes:

  4. 4
    Posted by HeadlessHorseman | March 11, 2010 at 12:45 PM

    I could have sworn that DealBreaker was running a promotion at one point regarding this Caesar’s AC thing. http://dealbreaker.com/2010/03/stockings-and-bonds-poker-tournament-giveaway/ Yeah, that’s it. I remember that. The winner was to be picked “this Friday” which would’ve been March 5th.

  5. 5
    Posted by Anonymous | March 11, 2010 at 12:45 PM

    Clearly he should be played by Sean Penn……from I Am Sam.

  6. 6
    Posted by guest | March 11, 2010 at 12:50 PM

    @4 Oh I should have read this article closer, I was thinking who would be good to chair the SEC, my bad.
    -guest

  7. 7
    Posted by Retail | March 11, 2010 at 12:54 PM

    “a little bit”? He’s completely bonkers as evidenced by the Jon Stewart/Senate appearances. Sniffing out a Ponzi scheme does not make you KoTW. Even though the SEC is mostly incompetent and overlawyered, I’d be terrified if he took over.

  8. 8
    Posted by Anonymous | March 11, 2010 at 1:13 PM

    Obviously he does not porn search at work, as he had time to do the analysis on Madoff. In my book he is overqualified, he should be the f#ckin President.

    Markopolos 2012

  9. 9
    Posted by Anonymous | March 11, 2010 at 1:27 PM

    Holy shit this dude is out of his fkcing mind and additionally…… may still be a virgin. I’d guess he’s an avid bird watcher.

  10. 10
    Posted by Anonymous | March 11, 2010 at 1:44 PM

    The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament.

  11. 11
    Posted by Anonymous | March 11, 2010 at 2:14 PM

    We just had a congressman who liked tickle fights and “snorkeling” resign. Seriously, we can’t really do too much worse.

  12. 12
    Posted by dave | March 11, 2010 at 2:38 PM

    #8 where can I contribute?
    Just read the book.
    You can laugh at the green suit, pink shirt and orange tie (and he wonders innocently in the book why that great French nobleman M. de la Villehuchet passed up a chance to have Harry talk to Prince Charles) but everything in the book is clear and damning. And the prescription at the end for how the SEC should be run is bang on and the description of that c@nt Mary Schapiro polite and written in hydrochloric acid.
    Do those doofuses have Bloomberg terminals YET? and if so do any of them know how to USE them?
    One of 13 simple and unanswerable and clearly put questions he raises.

  13. 13
    Posted by Anonymous | March 11, 2010 at 4:52 PM

    I went to school with Harry, I think, although I’m not certain. He is crazy with the spreadsheets and always came across as the kind of guy who would bring the SEC to its knees. Go Harry!

  14. 14
    Posted by guest | March 11, 2010 at 5:40 PM

    Not for nothing, though, Harvey Pitt is still a douche.

  15. 15
    Posted by Anonymous | March 11, 2010 at 5:56 PM

    Can we get him to investigate Goldman Sachs as a test to whether he’s capable of chairing the SEC?

  16. 16
    Posted by Bernie | March 11, 2010 at 10:22 PM

    This guy is a joke in the industry.

  17. 17
    Posted by Anonymous | March 12, 2010 at 10:44 AM

    If someone at the SEC could actually stop illegal naked shorting, I might believe there is someone working there who is not a member of NOW; as it is there does not seem to be a set of balls in the entire SEC.

  18. 18
    Posted by Anonymous | March 12, 2010 at 10:47 AM

    If someone at the SEC could actually stop illegal naked shorting, I might believe there is someone working there who is not a member of NOW; as it is there does not seem to be a set of balls in the entire SEC.

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