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the reality of it boiled down to “Madoff was too big and important for anyone to dare question”.
Yes, the fraud itself was extremely simple, but I also highly doubt that a random noname like SBF could have pulled that off at the time. You really had to be someone. Someone the SEC didn’t want to touch.