True Crime Business

“Bam!” The robber hit my eyes hard with his gun. I am still not sure if it was a real gun or a fake one: All I can say is that it was a very heavy metallic object. As soon as I saw the gun, the first thing I thought of was that my wife was pregnant. She was right next to me at that moment, unfortunately. The robber asked me to open our cash register and dump the cash into his bag. I don’t think he knew that we barely had $160 cash for changes (possibly even less than that). I hesitated for a second and he hit my head. This story is about the true event which happened in a video game ...

Den of Thieves tells, in masterfully reported detail, the full story of the insider-trading scandal that nearly destroyed Wall Street, the men who pulled it off, and the chase that finally brought them to justice. Pulitzer Prize winner James B. Stewart shows for the first time how four of the biggest names on Wall Street - Michael Milken, Ivan Boesky, Martin Siegel, and Dennis Levine - created the greatest insider-trading ring in financial history and almost walked away with billions.

Eddie Tipton went to prison in 2017 for masterminding the biggest lottery fraud in U.S. history. In a twisting and bizarre tale, he somehow mixed a cocktail of greed, Bigfoot hunting, deception, cybercrime, and a love of hot dogs on his way to a felony conviction after he and several accomplices scored a series of jackpots from rigged drawings but fell short on the biggest "score" of them all. It's a wild story of greed and misplaced confidence, and a study in public officials whose determination survived a nearly cold trail.

Suomalaisen yritysjohtajan amerikkalainen unelma - ja sen karu kääntöpuoli. Syyskuussa 2009 yritysjohtaja Tapani Koivunen istui lentokoneessa matkalla Chicagosta Oklahomaan. Kone oli U. S. Marshalin, ja Koivusen ranteita hiersivät käsiraudat. Kaikki sai alkunsa vuosituhannen alussa, kun Koivunen halusi rakentaa elintarviketeollisuusyrityksen Viroon. Hanke kaatui ahneuteen, kun amerikkalaiset yhtiökumppanit kavalsivat yrityksen varat. Heidän rikoksensa johdosta yhtiön toimitusjohtaja Koivunen pidätettiin Chicagon lentokentällä.

It was a time when anything seemed possible–instant wealth, glittering fame, fabulous luxury–and for a run of magical weeks in the spring and summer of 1920, Charles Ponzi made it all come true. Promising to double investors’ money in three months, the dapper, charming Ponzi raised the “rob Peter to pay Paul” scam to an art form and raked in millions at his office in downtown Boston. Ponzi’s Scheme is the amazing true story of the irresistible scoundrel who launched the most successful scheme of financial alchemy in modern history–and uttered the first roar of the Roaring Twenties.

She’s lost herself in his life—but what will she do without him? Tony looks from the smoking gun to me, his eyes wide with mingled grief and shock. I set the pistol down on the desk and sit. The grip bears my bloody handprint. “Is everyone ready to get to business now? Because we have a huge mess to clean up.” *** Eleni Everyone I love goes away or betrays me. I’m tired of getting my heart broken. When the empty boss’s chair offers me the opportunity to seize power and control, I don’t know how to refuse. Dante? I’m not used to taking a backseat. I’m not used to wearing my...

A powerful Czech multimillionaire, Radovan Krejcir fled his home country shortly after his arrest in 2005 on charges of fraud. He arrived on South Africa’s shores in 2007, travelling under a fake name with a false passport, and avoiding extradition through pay offs. Krejcir fast began to make a name for himself within South Africa’s underworld, but it was the murder of Teazer’s boss Lolly Jackson in 2010 that brought his name to public attention.

Die Arbeitswelt wird zunehmend härter und kälter. Arbeitneh mer tragen den Arbeitskampf unter sich aus, setzen nicht nur Arbeitsleistung, sondern auch Gesundheit und Lebenssituation ein. Beispiele aus der Kriminalgeschichte deutschsprachiger Länder zeigen, wie und unter welchen Umständen Arbeitsituationen und die Reaktionen darauf zu Mord und Totschlag führen können, und wo die Schuld dafür zu suchen ist. Situationen, die keineswegs historisch, sondern beispielhaft sind.

When Jennifer Mascia is five years old, the FBI comes for her father. At that moment Jenny realizes that her family isn’t exactly normal. What follows are months of confusion marked by visits with her father through thick glass, talking to him over a telephone attached to the wall. She and her mother crisscross the country, from California to New York to Miami and back again.

Kristie Macrakis combines a storyteller's sense of drama with a historian's respect for evidence in this pause-resisting history of intrigue and espionage, love and war, magic and secrecy. From the piazzas of ancient Rome to the spy capitals of the Cold War, Macrakis' global history reveals the drama and importance of invisible ink. From Ovid's advice to use milk for illicit love notes, to al-Qaeda's hidden instructions in pornographic movies, this book presents stories of secret messaging that chart its evolution in sophistication and its impact on history.

In Testosterone Inc.: Tales of CEOs Gone Wild, best-selling author and New York Post columnist Chris Byron chronicles the Gatsby-like saga of the rise and fall of the celebrity CEO. During the height of the 1990s bull market, they were America¿s new heroes: the heroes of business. They were our bold new leaders, cutting the fat, pushing for productivity, implementing visionary plans, and making strategic deals.

Die Strategien erfolgreicher Krimineller als Fundus für Innovation! Geschichten von erfolgreichen Kriminellen faszinieren und erschrecken uns schon immer. Ob "Scarface" als Alter Ego des organisierten Verbrechens oder "Mr. Nice" Howard Marks, der reale große Cannabisdealer und Bestsellerautor. Sie alle verbindet das Bild des kriminellen Genies. Vor allem ihr Einfallsreichtum und Innovationsgeist können dabei als Vorlage auch für legale Geschäfte dienen. Es gibt etliche Gemeinsamkeiten zwischen Kriminellen und Erfolgsunternehmern, u.a. sind die Grenzen der Legalität oftmals unscharf.

This audiobook is meant to be a guide to beginning criminal investigators. The information in this guide has been collected and used in the field by Dr. Paul A. Ibbetson in the collection of hundreds of confessions that have led to successful criminal prosecutions. Knowing how to collect legal confessions from criminals can be mastered. This audiobook has usable information that can be put into immediate action!

The year was 2004, and India's economy was booming. Around the same time, a nonbanking financial company applied for and received a license to operate as a private bank. Yes Bank was born. Its rise was phenomenal, and it soon became the fourth-largest private bank in the country, with approved permissions to operate in Singapore, London, and Dubai. The returns were also immense. That is, till the skeletons began tumbling out of the Yes Bank lockers. Stories of the bank's reckless lending were going around, and allegations of bribery and corruption became rife.