Bernard L. Madoff haunts these corridors like the He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named of Wall Street.
In the headquarters of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Mr. Madoff’s name is rarely spoken. More than seven months after he was sentenced to prison for orchestrating a global Ponzi scheme, shaken S.E.C. employees are still struggling to come to grips with how they failed to catch him before it was too late.
Many here refer to the scandal — a $65 billion fraud that, despite several red flags, went undetected by the S.E.C. for more than two decades — as “the event” or “the incident.”
Full story: SEC Enforcers Focus on Avoiding Madoff Repeat–New York Times–via CNBC