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Explores "the criminal masterminds driving some of the biggest spam and hacker operations targeting Americans and their bank accounts. Tracing the rise, fall, and alarming resurrection of the digital mafia behind the two largest spam pharmacies--and countless viruses, phishing, and spyware attacks--he delivers the first definitive narrative of the global spam problem and its threat to consumers everywhere"--Amazon.com.
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"The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos--the Enron of Silicon Valley--by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end in the face of pressure and threats from the CEO and her lawyers. In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup "unicorn" promised to revolutionize the medical industry...
4) Quiz show
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Hollywood Pictures Home Video
Pub. Date
[1995?]
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1 DVD (133 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Fame and fortune become a hotbed of scandal when a Washington investigator uncovers corruption beneath the TV's hottest quiz show's glittering facade. The scandal implicates both the wildly popular champion and the disgruntled ex-champ.
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Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2019.
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596 pages ; 24 cm
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"In Crisis of Conscience, Tom Mueller traces the rise of whistleblowing through a series of riveting cases drawn from the worlds of healthcare and other businesses, Wall Street, and Washington. Drawing on in-depth interviews with more than two hundred whistleblowers and the trailblazing lawyers who arm them for battle--plus politicians, intelligence analysts, government watchdogs, cognitive scientists, and other experts--Mueller anatomizes what inspires...
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Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2019]
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1 DVD (78 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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It is the autopsy of a crime, by those who tried to prevent it from within. Mortgage brokers from California and a handful of New York executives called out these fraudulent transactions. But nobody listened.
Pub. Date
2021
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1 DVD (91 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in..
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Tells the story of Harry Markopolos, a whistleblower of the monumental Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme, describing his discovery of the investment banker's crimes, as well as his repeated warnings to the Securities and Exchange Commision that went unheeded.
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Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2018.
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xvii, 379 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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"In 2009, with the dust yet to settle on the financial crisis, a mild-mannered Wharton grad set in motion a fraud of unprecedented gall and magnitude--one that would come to symbolize the next great threat to the global financial system. The scandal is known as 1MDB, and the man behind it, Jho Low, is a figure so preposterous he might seem made up. "An epic tale of white-collar crime on a global scale" (Publishers Weekly, starred review), Billion...
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John Wiley
Pub. Date
c2010
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xiv, 354 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps, charts ; 24 cm.
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"Bernie Madoff was a king of the financial world. He was quietly running the largest hedge fund in the world, a fund that eventually spread to over forty nations and handled tens of billions of dollars. Harry Markopolos was a number cruncher at a Boston equity derivatives firm analyzing investment products. When a marketer handed Harry a prospectus outlining Madoff's strategy and asked him to create a similar product, he looked at the numbers. Within...
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