To Noreen Harrington, a former Goldman Sachs executive, it was not a hard call back in 2003. After evaluating Bernard L. Madoff’s investment performance, she concluded Madoff was either breaking the law or making up his stock trading entirely. His performance, she said, very well could be pure “fiction.” Harrington, then the chief investment officer for a hedge fund owned in part by the owners of the Mets, shared her opinion at the time with her superiors, including Saul Katz, one of the two men who own the Mets. More in the New York Times here.
