everyone who worked for Madoff should be indicted On Mar 21, 12:25 am, dick thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > +-------------------------------------------------------------------------- > --------------------+ > | Madoff's Programmers Indicted > | > | from the just-an-off-by-one-billion-bug-i-swear dept. > | > | posted by Soulskill on Saturday March 20, @10:43 (Crime) > | > | https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/03/20/1347221/Madoffs-Programmers-... > | > +-------------------------------------------------------------------------- > --------------------+ > > jason8 writes with news that two programmers who worked at Bernie > Madoff's investment firm [0]have now been indicted on charges of > 'conspiracy, falsifying records of a broker-dealer and falsifying records > of an investment adviser,' for their role in [1]hiding the firm's > activities (PDF) from the SEC and external accountants. Quoting Reuters: > "O'Hara and Perez, employed at the firm from 1990 and 1991, respectively, > were primarily responsible for developing and maintaining computer > programs in the investment advisory unit at the center of the fraud. Many > of the programs were run on an IBM server known as 'House 17,' according > to court documents. Prosecutors said the men took hush money to help keep > the fraud going and designed codes to make up fake trade blotters and > phantom records. US prosecutors said the two men worked under the > supervision of Madoff and his top aide, Frank DiPascali, to deceive the > US Securities and Exchange Commission and a European accounting firm. > DiPascali is cooperating with prosecutors, who said his information led > to the arrests of the programmers and the now defunct firm's outside > accountant." > > Discuss this story at: > http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/03/20/1347221 > > Links: > 0.http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62G52P20100317 > 1.http://www.justice.gov/usao/nys/pressreleases/March10/oharajeromeandp...
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