Richard Shelby actually said...

Communication across the SEC offices was so badly flawed that Madoff himself had to alert the New York examiners that their counterparts in the Washington office of the SEC had been looking at similar issues.

Context

Shelby points out severe communication failures within the SEC.

09/09/2009

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