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Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"There is an elite crime spree happening in America, and the privileged perps are getting away with it. Selling loose cigarettes on a city sidewalk can lead to a choke-hold arrest, and death, if you are not among the top 1%. But if you're rich and commit mail, wire, or bank fraud, embezzle pension funds, lie in court, obstruct justice, bribe a public official, launder money, or cheat on your taxes, you're likely to get off scot-free (or even win an...
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
It was one of the FBI's biggest secrets: a senior executive with America's most politically powerful corporation, Archer Daniels Midland, had become a confidential government witness, secretly recording a vast criminal conspiracy spanning five continents. Mark Whitacre, the promising golden boy of ADM, had put his career and family at risk to wear a wire and deceive his friends and colleagues. Using Whitacre and a small team of agents to tap into...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A look at the career of the man who developed the most famous scheme in American finance explains how, in 1920, Charles Ponzi raked in millions of dollars from investors by promising them he could double their investments in three months.
15) White-collar and financial crimes: a casebook of fraudsters, scam artists, and corporate thieves
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
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
Wiley
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"Step-by-step guidance for board members and executives on preventing and detecting accounting fraudIn the wake of highly publicized allegations of accounting irregularities and fraudulent financial reporting that are shaking up today's corporate community, Financial Fraud Prevention and Detection provides a step-by-step guide to how these crises can envelop a company and how to prevent them from happening in the first place. It is written for almost...
20) The expats
Author
Language
English
Description
Kate Moore is a working mother, struggling to make ends meet, to raise children, to keep a spark in her marriage ... and to maintain an increasingly unbearable life-defining secret. So when her husband is offered a lucrative job in Luxembourg, she jumps at the chance to start anew. While Kate reinvents herself as an expat, her husband works incessantly at a job she has never understood. Then another American couple arrives, and Kate becomes suspicious...