id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2287 Harry Markopolos - Wikipedia .html text/html 6046 642 71 In 2000, 2001, and 2005, Markopolos alerted the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of his views, supplying supporting documents, but each time the SEC ignored him or gave his evidence only a cursory investigation.[1] Madoff was finally revealed to be a fraud in December 2008, when his sons contacted the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Critics of Markopolos have called him obsessive, a self-publicist, and self-righteous, and some questioned whether he was motivated by a financial bounty, which he denied.[7][8][9] The Wall Street Journal described him as "a little bit nuts".[7] In his book, he revealed that at one point he kept an old army gas mask handy in case SEC investigators burst into his home with teargas.[7] He wrote in his book: "If [Madoff] contacted me and threatened me, I was going to go down to New York and take him out. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2287.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2287.txt