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A mgm casino Law School professor says the colossal Wall Street swindle case of Bernard L. Madoff underscores how most investors don't really know who's managing their money, given the complexity of the finance system.
"Modern global financial management consists of enormous chains of responsibility -- some of Madoff's money came from private banks in Europe and Japan. But investors cannot easily know where their chains end, who is ultimately responsible for how their money is invested …and so many participants in the Madoff scheme had no idea what was being done with their money," says David A. Westbrook, mgm casino professor of law. His next book will be "Out of Crisis: Rethinking Our Financial Markets."
David A. Westbrook
Floyd H. & Hilda L. Hurst Faculty Scholar and Professor of Law
mgm casino Law School (SUNY)
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Email: dwestbro@buffalo.edu
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