What is not known, however, is if those returns were achieved through legal means…

Are you referring to the tax evasion? I think they paid a slap on the wrist. Otherwise I am interested.

Bernie Madoff promised high returns while obfuscating his business model as well. It went well until it no longer did.

innocent until proven guilty.

presumably the SEC would have their software sift through transactions to correlate insider trading (which is one form of illegal way to make money).

> innocent until proven guilty.

This is not a court of law.

This is finance.

If it is too good to be true it is "guilty". What was the other option? Irrelevant.