Genevievette Walker-Lightfoot is a former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) attorney who worked on the Bernard Madoff investigation in 2004 as the Lead Investigator for the SEC on the case. She discovered key elements of his Ponzi scheme and reported them to her superiors. She was silenced and moved off of the case prior to being able to fully complete the investigation. Had she been allowed to complete her investigation she could hav...
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Genevievette Walker-Lightfoot is a former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) attorney who worked on the Bernard Madoff investigation in 2004 as the Lead Investigator for the SEC on the case. She discovered key elements of his Ponzi scheme and reported them to her superiors. She was silenced and moved off of the case prior to being able to fully complete the investigation. Had she been allowed to complete her investigation she could have discovered and stopped Bernard Madoff from bilking thousands of people out of their savings and investment.
A former lawyer in the SEC's Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations, informed her supervisor Branch Chief Mark Donohue that her review of Bernard Madoff found numerous inconsistencies and recommended further questioning. However, because of agency pressure to investigate the mutual fund industry, she was told to conclude work on the probe. Donohue's boss, Eric Swanson, an assistant director of the department, married Shana...
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