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How was Madoff's fraud missed?

How did US financial regulators miss the repeated warning signs about the business practices of Bernard Madoff? North America business correspondent Greg Wood reports on a hearing of the House of Representatives Financial Services Committee to discuss the alleged fraud which robbed investors of at least $50bn.

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