The new exhibits consist of 6,157 pages of interviews, letters, e-mail messages, telephone records and other background material gathered during Mr. [David] Kotz\u2019s 10-month investigation of how the commission handled, and mishandled, numerous tips and warnings it received about Mr. Madoff over the years. His full report,released last month, found the agency had received six substantive complaints since 1992 \u201d\u201d and botched the investigation of every one of them. He found no evidence of any bribery, collusion or deliberate sabotage of those investigations.<\/b><\/p>\n
In fact, Mr. Madoff said in the jailhouse interview that, on two occasions, he was certain it was only a matter of days or even hours before he would be caught. The first time, in 2004, he assumed the investigators would check his clearinghouse account. He said he was \u201castonished\u201d\u009d that they did not, and theorized that they might have decided against doing so because of his stature in the industry.<\/p>\n