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“Maybe he was just good?” Marcopolis queried. “No one’s that good.” He surmised there could only be two explanations: insider trading or a colossal Ponzi scheme. With such alarming suspicions, Marcopolis approached the Boston office of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in May 2000, initiating a saga of bureaucratic inaction. Over the years, he filed at least five separate reports detailing his concerns, reiterating that the SEC overlooked or ignored his warnings.