Last January, right here in this room, a little more than 1 month after Bernard Madoff confessed to running a $50 billio...
Investigations were unfocused, understaffed, and improperly documented.
Unfortunately, that hearing yielded few answers.
Communication across the SEC offices was so badly flawed that Madoff himself had to alert the New York examiners that th...
Is it mind boggling to you, as you did your research and investigation here, that a fraud of such magnitude, $50 billion...
Does that exist today?
Yes, sir, and we thank you so much. They really did.
Well, law enforcement overwhelmingly is a State and local responsibility.
Did Federal funding help the backlog, to your knowledge?
Well, I think that's true.
Maybe some national training. Maybe we don't have enough national training centers.
That's pretty clear that that happened and it troubles me, as someone who has spent a lot of time in law enforcement.
I don't accept the idea that they seem to suggest that fingerprints is not a proven technology.
More innocent people could have a cloud removed from them and not be charged.
Forensic sciences in America does present a challenge, in my view. It's something that I have felt strongly about for ma...
I think you would say that the forensic sciences are being shortchanged financially and we can do better.
If that was the only thing in the world I had as evidence against a defendant I might be a bit nervous if I were a juror...
The first thing the Federal Government could do in a positive way is to spend the money to do the kind of research that ...
