Harry Markopolos, the Boston investment investigator whose outcries over billion-dollar Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff went largely unheeded, is coming to West Hartford Sunday to discuss the episode and promote his new book.
Markopolos will appear on a panel with author Barbara Ley, who wrote about lapses that felled former accounting giant Arthur Anderson, from noon to 3 p.m. at Congregation Beth Israel, 701 Farmington Ave.
Connecticut Supreme Court Justice Richard N. Palmer will moderate.
Markopolos writes in his book, No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller, about how he and his team cracked Madoff’s Ponzi scheme. He insists federal securities regulators’ failure to take seriously sooner his warnings about Madoff allowed the scheme to run longer than it should,
Madoff, who had victims and family in Connecticut, is serving 150 years in prison.
The former Nasdaq chairman is accused of bilking more than $50 billion from investors, many of them charities and philanthropies.
