Family members of a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement official, whose unit got a tip in 2005 that Bernard Madoff may be running a Ponzi scheme, entrusted $2 million to the scam, the agency’s watchdog said.
The anonymous e-mailed tip to the Office of Internet Enforcement was among at least six “substantive complaints” the SEC didn’t fully investigate over 16 years, Inspector General H. David Kotz said in a report released yesterday. Investments by two of the official’s relatives were disclosed as a footnote in the 457-page report, which doesn’t identify him or specify losses. He wasn’t part of any Madoff probe, Kotz noted.
Saturday, September 05, 2009
Madoff Scam Touched Family of SEC Official Whose Unit Got Tip
Bloomberg reports: