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Author
Series
Gibson Vaughn novels volume 2
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"When jailed billionaire Charles Merrick hints publicly that he has stashed a fortune in an offshore cache, a school of sharks converges upon his release from Federal prison. Among his swindled victims is Judge Hammond Birk, the man who saved Gibson Vaughn's life when he was a troubled teenager. Now Gibson intends to repay that debt by recovering Merrick's victims' money. But Gibson isn't the only one on the trail of the hidden fortune.The promise...
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Pub. Date
2020.
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Description
Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star lodging on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. On the night she meets Jonathan Alkaitis, a hooded figure scrawls a message on the lobby's glass wall: Why don?t you swallow broken glass. High above Manhattan, a greater crime is committed: Alkaitis's billion-dollar business is really nothing more than a game of smoke and mirrors. When his scheme collapses, it obliterates countless fortunes...
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Description
Reclusive literary legend M. M. 'Mimi' Banning has been holed up in her Bel Air mansion for years. But after falling prey to a Bernie Madoff-style ponzi scheme, she's flat broke. Now Mimi must write a new book for the first time in decades, and to ensure the timely delivery of her manuscript, her New York publisher sends an assistant to monitor her progress. The prickly Mimi reluctantly complies, with a few stipulations: No Ivy-Leaguers or English...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"In New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance's latest thriller, Ali Reynolds faces her most controversial mystery yet, solving the murder of a man whose Ponzi scheme bankrupted hundreds of people, and left them seeking justice...or revenge. When Ali's parents lose their life savings to a Ponzi scheme, her father goes to confront his long-time friend and financial advisor, only to stumble into the scene of a bloody double homicide. With her father...
Author
Publisher
John Wiley
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
xiv, 354 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps, charts ; 24 cm.
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
viii, 340 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Description
Draws on interviews with the Madoff family to describe their relationships with the financier, their reactions to the discovery of his multi-billion dollar Ponzi scheme, and the ways in which his actions have affected them. With unprecedented access to the surviving family members-wife Ruth, son Andrew and his fiancé Catherine Hooper-journalist Laurie Sandell reveals the personal details behind the headlines. How did Andrew and Mark, the sons who'd...
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in..
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
253 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Description
The widow of Mark Madoff and daughter-in-law of Bernard Madoff presents an insider's account as an unsuspecting member of the family associated with the audacious Ponzi scheme, describing her idyllic marriage, her belief in her husband's innocence, their ordeals at the height of the media frenzy and her husband's tragic suicide.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"An entertaining, deeply informative explanation of how high-level financial crimes work, written with verve and wit by an industry insider and expert in the field Lying, fraud, and fiscal deception are a daily news item, and the list of well-known banks, companies, and multinational financial institutions prosecuted for such crimes seems never ending. Since money was created, people have tried to sell things that don't exist and buy things without...
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