Q&A: How To Spot The Next Bernie Madoff

The recent raft of Ponzi schemes may seem like a new sort of epidemic to the investors they victimize and the regulators they all too frequently skirt. To L. Burke Files, it’s just another day at the office.

As practice leader for due diligence and asset location investigations at New York-based investigative and protective services firm The Lubrinco Group, Files has seen frauds from the very small to the very large. And he has successfully steered clients away from such high-profile hedge fund frauds as those led by Bernard Madoff and R. Allen Stanford.