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Harry Markopolos Net Worth
Harry Markopolos's Net Worth as of 2024
$2 Million
Harry M. Markopolos was born on the 22nd October 1956, in Erie, Pennsylvania, USA, and is a retired security executive as well as an independent forensic accountant and financial fraud investigator, who is renowned for discovering and cracking Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme worth almost $65 billion. He is also an author, best known for publishing “No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller” which hit the bookshelves in 2010.
Have you ever wondered how much wealth this financial expert has accumulated so far? How rich Harry Markopolos is? According to sources, it is estimated that the total of Harry Markopolos’ net worth, as of mid-2017, revolves around the sum of $2 million, acquired largely through his career in the financial business which has been active since 1987.
Harry Markopolos Net Worth $2 million
Harry was born into a family of restaurateurs, the eldest of three children of Louis and Georgia Markopolos, and apart from American is also of Greek ancestry. He went to Cathedral Preparatory School in his hometown before he enrolled at Loyola University of Maryland from which he graduated in 1981 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in business administration. In 1997, Harry earned his Boston College’s Master of Science degree, majoring in finance. Apart from these, he also attended various US Army postgraduate schools and earned his reserve commission as a second lieutenant. During his 17-year long part time service in US Army Reserve and Maryland Army National Guard, Markopolos earned the rank of major.
Harry Markopolos began his career in 1987, when he began serving as a broker on Wall Street. However, in 1988 he joined Darien Capital Management where he served as an assistant portfolio manager. In 1991, he transferred to Boston, Massachusetts where he became a portfolio manager of Rampart Investment Management. In 1996, he obtained the Chartered Financial Analyst appointment while in 2002 Harry climbed to the position of the company’s chief investment officer. Two years later, he abandoned Rampart in order to completely focus on fraud investigations of Fortune 500 companies. All these engagements provided the basis for Harry Markopolos’ net worth.
Harry got his hands on Bernard Madoff’s revenues stream in 1999 for the first time, and immediately noticed several “red flags” in it. In 2000, he filed a complaint to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) but it did not bear any fruit, so he spent the next eight years investigating the Madoff case and compiling mathematical evidence as well as revealing illegal operations. After several more formal complaints to SEC, in 2008 Markopolos finally proved that Bernard Madoff and his Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities, LLC. were running the biggest Ponzi scheme in the world of modern finance, whose total worth is estimated at $64.8 billion! In March 2008, Madoff pleaded guilty and was sentenced to a 150-year-long imprisonment. It is certain that the whole “Madoff case” earned Harry Markopolos a huge amount of popularity which impacted his net worth as well.
In 2008, Markopolos was appointed as the Certified Fraud Examiner and ever since he has been serving as an independent fraud investigator. In 2010 he released a book about Madoff’s fraud, entitled ” No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller”. Apart from all those already mentioned above, Harry also served as the CEO of Boston Security Analysts Society as well as a board member of Global Association of Risk Professionals and the Quantitative Work Alliance for Applied Finance, Education and Wisdom (QWAFAFEW). Doubtlessly, all these achievements have helped Harry Markopolos to further increase the size of his wealth.
When it comes to his personal life, Harry has been married to Faith with whom he has welcomed three children, all sons. With his family, Markopolos resides in Whitman, Massachusetts.
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Ben Stein Net Worth
Benjamin Jeremy Stein is an American lawyer, speechwriter, actor, writer and commentator on economic and political issues, but he is also known for participating in many other activities. For example, Ben Stein has even tried himself as a game show host. This famous person in American economics and politics was born on November 25 in 1944 in Washington, D.C., United States during World War II. He attended Columbia College and later Yale Law School. After graduation Ben Stein started to write columns and articles for different US magazines such as Newsmax, Los Angeles Magazine, Penthouse, The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s Magazine, The American Spectator and even for The New York Times.
Ben Stein Net Worth $20 Million
In his writings Stein usually speaks about the economic situation and political issues, and even gives financial advices to individual investors. However, in the mid-60s he also got the job of a poverty lawyer and later continued as a lawyer for the Federal Trade Comission. After few years of hard work, Ben Stein decided to try himself in acting too, but before starting to get roles he became a Hollywood consultant. Stein got his first comedy role and had to play a boring and monotonous economics teacher in the movie called Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, which was released in 1986. As an actor Ben Stein has since appeared in many other movies, such as The Mask, No Intelligence Allowed, Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II, The Emperor’s New School, Full House, Casper: A Spirited Beginning, The O’Reilly Factor, Maried… with Children, Duckman, The Emperor’s New Schol, Earthworm Jim, Casper Meets Wendy, Family Guy and Richie Rich.
The famous actor and commentator is also recognized thanks to the Comedy Central channel where he was the main face of the show called “Win Ben Stein’s Money” for which he has even received an Emmy award. Ben Stein was earning $5,000 per episode, but money that contestants won was subtracted from actor’s salary. However, these earnings are just nothing if we compare them with Stein’s net worth, which reached $20 million in 2012.
Ben Stein is well known thanks to his ability to harmonize all his activities and show himself as a talented person in every job he does. But maybe one of his most successful, but not so well-known activities is writing speeches for American presidents. Ben Stein was a speechwriter for Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Until now Ben Stein has published 15 books, the first written together with Herbert Stein and released in 1978. In 2012 his last book appeared in stores – “How To Really Ruin Your Financial Life and Portfolio”.
Nowadays Ben Stein lives with his wife Alexandra Denman in Beverly Hills and Malibu, California. The couple married in 1968 and divorced after 6 years, but in 1977 they got back together again. With his wife Ben Stein adopted their son Tom in 1987. As well as his property in Beverly Hills, Ben Stein also owns a summer home in Sandpoint, Idaho and an apartment in the Watergate complex in Washingtton, D.C., which was inherited from his parents.
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Mikey Teutul Net Worth
Michael Joseph was born 26 November 1978, in Montgomery, New York State USA, and widely known as Mikey Teutul, is a reality television personality, the youngest son of Orange County Choppers founder Paul Teutul, Sr. Mikey began his working life at 14, in the family business.
So just how rich is Mikey Teutul, as of late 2017? Authoritative sources estimate that Mikey has a net worth of over $3 million dollars, largely earned by working at his father’s and older brother Paul Jr,’s company Orange County Choppers (OCC), and Orange County Iron Works, and through his TV appearances.
Mikey Teutul Net Worth $3 Million
Little is known of Mikey’s early life or education – it seems to have always revolved around the family business. Helping out his family in his teens, theoretically he worked as Assistant General Manager. but his main duties were to answer ‘phones, and clear-up and take out the trash. He was on rare occasions given the chance to build bikes, until he was competent to build his own. He also attended events for promoting OCC.
In 2002, the family was invited to take part in a reality show, Discovery Channel’s “American Chopper”, and subsequently “American Chopper: Senior vs. Junior”, in the course of which the youngest son was thrown out of the business – the middle son is Daniel, and younger sister Cristin. The reason for Mikey’s exclusion was that Mikey tried to be a mediator between his father and his brother, but his father seemed to be offended that his younger son did not take his side, and so threw him out of the business. During the filming of the show, Mikey was somethoing of a comedy relief to his father’s workers, and that comedy streak helped gain him popularity in TV shows. Mikey then joined his brother’s post-OCC venture, -Paul Jr Designs – along with most of their father’s employees; obviously the work atmosphere with Paul Teutul, Sr. was not a particularly happy one. Mikey’s eldest brother Paul Jr. was the former chief fabricator of OCC.
So actually the main source of Mikey Teutul’s wealth is not his father’s business, but the shows he eventually took part in. These have included ‘The Late Show with David Letterman”, “Late Night with Conan O’Brien”, and also “The Tonight Show” with Jay Leno. The shows became very popular and Mikey’s appearances earned him a significant amount of money. To say the least, the family drama did not go without consequences – according to rumours, Mikey Teutul was suffering from an addiction problem, and consequently admitted himself to rehab, and managed to overcome the bad habits which were apparently hindering his progress in life, obviously including business.
In his life away from the businesses already referred to and the limelight of TV, Michael loves to paint, and is apparently respected for his productions, as he opened “The Wolfgang Gallery” gallery in Montgomery, New York, where he has sold or auctioned his paintings, adding somewhat to is net worth, although rumours suggest that the gallery may now be closed. Most recently, Mikey is now trying to enter the market under the moniker LLC FarQueue Products with his line of gourmet pasta sauces. Good luck, Mikey!
In his less-than-private personal life, Mikey is apparently still single – there aren’t even any rumours of romantic liaisons.
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