{"id":2163,"date":"2008-12-11T19:14:23","date_gmt":"2008-12-12T02:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=2163"},"modified":"2008-12-11T19:14:23","modified_gmt":"2008-12-12T02:14:23","slug":"ponzi-of-a-billion-dollar-kind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/12\/11\/ponzi-of-a-billion-dollar-kind\/","title":{"rendered":"Ponzi Of a Billion Dollar Kind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Holy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sec.gov\/news\/press\/2008\/2008-293.htm#\">mole<\/a>: a $50 billion dollar Ponzi scheme run by Bernard L. Madoff.  That&#8217;s an astounding amount of money if true.<br \/>\n<b>Update<\/b>: This is now big news, of course.  For an interesting read of someone who has been pursuing this fraud since 1999 see <a href=\"https:\/\/id.wsj.com\/access\/pages\/wsj\/us\/login_standalone.html?mg=inert-wsj&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Fdocuments%2FMadoff_SECdocs_20081217.pdf\">The World&#8217;s Largest Hedge Fund is a Fraud by Harry Markopolos<\/a>.  h\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/nakedshorts.typepad.com\/nakedshorts\/2008\/12\/breaking-the-markopolos-file.html\">nakedshorts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holy mole: a $50 billion dollar Ponzi scheme run by Bernard L. Madoff. That&#8217;s an astounding amount of money if true. Update: This is now big news, of course. For an interesting read of someone who has been pursuing this fraud since 1999 see The World&#8217;s Largest Hedge Fund is a Fraud by Harry Markopolos. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/12\/11\/ponzi-of-a-billion-dollar-kind\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ponzi Of a Billion Dollar Kind&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}