Corporate Crime

Pablo Escobar was the King of Cocaine, the wealthiest and most violent criminal in the world. By the 1980s his Medellin Drug Cartel was responsible for smuggling several tons of cocaine into America each and every day. The end result was hundreds of millions of dollars in cash profits.

January 2004 USA Today article titled; Nebraska family clashes over love, money and death; which led to uncovering one of the most diabolical cover-ups in the oracle's world. Snowballed is a personal David vs. Goliath narrative recounting the story of two men controlling the oracle stock, stolen identity, money laundering, federal corruption and murder, that led to massive illegalities within the company Berkshire Hathaway. All aided by law enforcement, courts and banks to perpetrate crimes against the common people with their deeply seated corruption.

Drowning in debt and facing almost certain bankruptcy, John Darwin did the unthinkable—he paddled out to sea in his red canoe and disappeared. After a massive search and rescue operation failed to find his body, he was assumed dead, lost in the bleak North Sea. But everything was far from what it seemed. Nearly six years later, after John miraculously returned from the dead with a strange tale of 'amnesia' and sporting a suspicious golden tan, the police and the press were desperate to discover the truth behind his remarkable resurrection.

An unbelievable but true white-collar crime story told by an average family man, Rick Norton. He gives a rare look into his own life as a young businessman in San Diego working as a financial planner, then falling into the life of being a business manager for professional athletes and gaining a front-row seat to their huge money and frequently dirty world. Used as a pawn by a powerful Fortune 500 company and exploited by the very professionals he was paying to help him, he tells of the difficult lessons learned along the way of meeting ignorance, greed, revenge, fear, and corruption.

Tras el éxito de Camisas azules, manos negras (caso Oceanografía) y El cártel negro, Ana Lilia Pérez regresa con el que tal vez sea el trabajo más ambicioso de su carrera: Mares de cocaína, una estremecedora investigación acerca del tráfico de drogas que se lleva a cabo en cientos de rutas náuticas a escala internacional, donde incluso algunos cárteles mexicanos ya han impuesto el pago de piso.

Like most people, before author Donato Alfredano gets caught up in the system, he's hardly given the issue of prison a thought. But his unanticipated arrest at JFK Airport on a charge of official misconduct was a reality check that would forever change his views on incarceration, and on a larger scale, life.

Every catastrophe has a beginning. For the opioid crisis in America, the seed was a drug called OxyContin. First hailed as a miracle drug for severe pain in the early 1990s, OxyContin went on to ignite a plague of addiction and death across America. Equal parts crime thriller, medical detective story and business exposé, Pain Killer is the origin story of the opioid crisis, a hard-hitting look at how a supposed wonder drug became the trigger for a national tragedy.

A desperate man. A suitcase full of secrets. And two brutal murders in a downtown Denver hotel. When Quincy Talbot checks into the Cambridge Hotel with two million dollars in cash, he thinks he’s buying time. Instead, he ends up dead—strangled with a guitar string. Just floors below, the night clerk is found shot execution-style. As detectives Clint Hawk, Nora Ricci, and the quirky yet sharp Mortimer Holliday investigate, they uncover a chilling trail of mob threats, corporate betrayal, and a mysterious woman tied to it all. Tina Dionisio claims she was there to help—but her past ...

Before the Lies Unfold A Gripping Psychological Thriller Investigative journalist Maya Patel was about to expose a conspiracy that could shake the world—until she vanished. Liam Carter refuses to believe his wife simply disappeared. The chilling warning left in her office, the encrypted files she hid, and the dangerous secrets she uncovered all point to something far more sinister. His search for the truth pulls him into a dark web of corporate corruption, human experimentation, and artificial intelligence with terrifying capabilities. Every step closer to finding Maya puts Liam in the ...

This book provides a detailed, step-by-step account of how fraud can be committed in the construction industry, narrated through the experiences of Robert, a former project manager who orchestrated a sophisticated scheme to siphon funds using a fake vendor. Combining his personal story with actionable insights, Robert reveals the vulnerabilities that allow fraud to thrive, the devastating consequences of unethical behavior, and the strategies businesses can adopt to protect themselves.

Sam Bankman-Fried—better known as SBF—was at the top of the world and lauded as a leading figure in cryptocurrency, an industry whose popularity has exploded over the past few years. He was being compared to the legendary financier J.P. Morgan and sometimes even rumored to have the potential to become the world’s first trillionaire. He built a crypto empire with trading firm Alameda Research and crypto exchange FTX, which became one of the world’s largest. He attracted leading investors and walked the corridors of power in Congress. Then, seemingly within days, everything collapsed.

In March 2021, an obscure financial technology company called Greensill Capital collapsed, going into administration. As it unravelled, a multibillion-dollar scandal emerged that would shake the very foundations of the British political system, drawing in swiss bankers, global CEOs, and world leaders, including former British Prime Minister, David Cameron. At the centre was an Australian financier named Lex Greensill. Pyramid of Lies charts the meteoric rise and spectacular downfall of Greensill and his company.

When Mosilo Mothepu was appointed CEO of Trillian Financial Advisory, in March 2016, the prospect of being at the helm of a Black-owned financial consultancy was electrifying for a Black woman whose twin passions were transformation and empowering women. Three months later, suffering from depression and insomnia, she resigned with no other job lined up. In October 2016, a written statement handed to Public Protector Thuli Madonsela detailing Trillian’s involvement in state capture was leaked to the media.

In today's ruthless world of organised crime, the best criminals aren't foolish enough to steal money out of banks. They wear tailored suits, carry briefcases, and discreetly slip money into banks. Bigwigs, oligarchs and crime syndicates running drugs, trafficking guns and people, arming terrorists and subverting government controls are desperate to put a legitimate face on their wealth. Washing dirty money, moving it around the globe, making it look legitimate is where the action is for both criminals and the authorities chasing them.

My past was always just beneath the surface. I couldn't look into someone's eyes without them knowing the truth. The truth is...the day I met Jeremy changed me forever. More than once, I thought it would be my last day. The feelings of despair were so intense I couldn't look at myself in the mirror. I was so ashamed. The double life, the $94 million in stolen money, and the FBI investigation.

Lo más importante de La Casa Gris es que descubre y resume un modo de operar y de gobernar. Las irregularidades en torno a la mansión de Houston son prácticamente las mismas que se han documentado en otros escándalos de Morena y el círculo íntimo del presidente: conflictos de interés, recursos de procedencia inexplicable, influyentismo, uso político de las instituciones, amiguismo, descalificación sistemática, nepotismo, opacidad… Este libro lo demuestra.

A partir de la nacionalización de la industria petrolera, por ochenta años Pemex fue el principal sostén de la economía mexicana, una maquinaria generadora de billones y billones de dólares por la producción y venta del oro negro y sus derivados, sólo que, a pesar de ser un bien público, sus ganancias y beneficios se repartieron entre pocas manos.

On a hot day in July 1988, Frank Casteel and his wife planned an outing on property they had recently acquired atop Signal Mountain in Tennessee. They would be celebrating their wedding anniversary. Several years later, that day's events would be rewritten. Despite crime scene contamination, a complete lack of evidence, and a span of missteps and misconduct by investigators and prosecutors, Frank would be charged and eventually wrongfully convicted of a triple homicide.

In November 1974, British MP and former cabinet minister John Stonehouse walked into the sea off a beach in Miami and disappeared, seemingly drowned. Then he was found—on the other side of the world, in Australia—and his extraordinary story began to come to light: a Labour cabinet minister and a devoted family man, also in a long-term affair with his secretary, and a spy for the Czech State Security agency, who had committed fraud and attempted to fake his own death to escape catastrophic business failures.

Tal Neilson is slowly losing his mind. He’s convinced his dead father Geri has been murdered, but no one believes him. Geri’s voice in his head is screaming for revenge. Is the voice real or a product of Tal’s addiction? Can Tal ignore his widowed mother’s attraction to Geri’s business partner?