Mr. Speaker, while Earl Jones made off with $50 million, Bernie Madoff made off with $65 billion. In fact, it is well documented that as long as 10 years before Madoff was caught, Harry Markopolos was working at the time for Rampart Investment Management in Boston and he was asked by his bosses whether he could duplicate Madoff's strategy, because, of course, they wanted to do the same thing and follow his strategy as to how he could make money consistently.
Markopolos was able to prove within a half hour that this could not be done. There had to be at least one month in a year that a fund would lose money. He just could not make money every year. He reported it to the Securities and Exchange Commission on several occasions over a 10-year period before they took action.
The question here is, where are the regulators? Why do regulators keep hiring people from within the industry who are friendly with people in the industry and are simply regulating their old friends? We have proven that regulation of friends does not work. We need more of an enforcement approach to regulation, a police force type of approach to regulation, as opposed to self-regulation by industry insiders.
I would just ask the member whether he has any comments about that.