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I learned a few years ago that I actually worked closely with one of the two programmers who worked with Madoff and was part of the "Madoff Five" the year befor
by macjohnmcc 5y ago
I learned a few years ago that I actually worked closely with one of the two programmers who worked with Madoff and was part of the "Madoff Five" the year before he started with Madoff. I feel the judge went too easy on the programmers involved as there is no way they did not understand what they were helping to orchestrate. I also worked closely with another programmer a couple of years later who wound up being a drug kingpin. I hope that it ended with those two!
- lordnacho 5y agoWhat were they coding? Sounded to me like nothing at all was going on inside.
- askesisdev 5y agoThey built software to create a fake history of the trading and also imitated certain software from other companies and regulators so the customer could check the trades were real. There is a decent book on Madoff called 'Wizard of Lies'
- macjohnmcc 5y agoYeah and knowing the programmer personally at the time I have no reason to believe he would not have known what he was helping to facilitate. Eventually the two programmers asked for their pay to be in diamonds like they were working for a James Bond villain and that is not how you do if you are ignorant of what they were doing.