Corporate Crime

Un nuevo audiolibro de la serie "Los pecados capitales de la historia de España", con la que Juan Eslava Galán nos ofrece anécdotas y curiosidades, en esta ocasión, relacionadas con los episodios de codicia más bochornosos de nuestra historia reciente.

Journalist Bridget Read tells the gripping story of multilevel marketing in full for the first time, winding from sunny post-war California, where a failed salesman started a vitamin business, through the suburbs of Michigan and North Carolina, where MLM bought its political protection, to the stadium-sized conventions where top sellers today preach to die-hard recruits. Little Bosses Everywhere exposes multilevel marketing as American capitalism’s stealthiest PR campaign: a cunning right-wing political project that has shaped nearly everything about how we live.

Fresh out of college in 1987, Connolly stumbles onto a job as a clerk at JP Morgan. Through hard work, dumb luck, and a watchful eye, he learns how to trade bonds and bahts, paper and punches. After a decade Connolly is lured from JP Morgan to start a trading desk at Deutsche Bank. He keeps climbing the rungs and avoiding the shade. But the late nights, globetrotting, and frat-house culture are taking a toll. After twenty-one years Connolly feels old for Wall Street, and he calls it a career. But not so fast. Nine years later, he's a federal defendant in the LIBOR scandal.

Catastrophic computer failures have led to aircraft entering death dives, fatal car crashes and killer radiation overdoses in hospitals. Advances in Artificial Intelligence and the UK Post Office Horizon IT scandal have further raised public concern, as an ongoing, previously unreported scandal involving TV Licensing appears to be unfolding. Computer scientist, Dr. Junade Ali, peels back the layers of cover-up, negligence and wrongdoing to uncover how killer computers are born and how everyone can protect themselves.

A gripping narrative of power, corruption and greed, The Mechanism is the true story of how a simple investigation into money laundering uncovered the biggest corruption scandal in human history. When a small team of investigators discovered that a black market currency dealer was operating out of a Brazilian petrol station, they could never have imagined that their work would destroy the government and lead to the impeachment of two presidents.

Embark on a gripping 25-year journey delving into the author's investigation of insurance crimes in Miami, spotlighting Special Investigation Units (SIU) an investigative world invisible to most, yet one for which we all pay.

Charles H. Ferguson, who electrified the world with his Oscar-winning documentary Inside Job, now explains how a predator elite took over the country, step by step, and he exposes the networks of academic, financial, and political influence, in all recent administrations, that prepared the predators' path to conquest. Over the last several decades, the United States has undergone one of the most radical social and economic transformations in its history.

In Partners in Crime, two-time number-one New York Times best-selling author Jerome R. Corsi, PhD, presents detailed research and expert testimony proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Clinton Foundation is a vast criminal conspiracy.

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.

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.

En 2014, Elizabeth Holmes, fundadora de Theranos, parecía destinada a tomar el relevo de Steve Jobs. Su empresa, que llegó a valorarse en nueve mil millones de dólares, prometía revolucionar la industria médica a partir de una gota de sangre, lo único que, junto a la máquina de Theranos, haría falta para poner la sanidad al alcance de todos. El problema era uno solo: la tecnología no funcionaba. Cuando John Carreyrou, periodista del Wall Street Journal, empezó a hacer preguntas, lo que recibió fueron amenazas judiciales. Aun así, el diario publicó el primero de numerosos artículos sobre Theranos.

Joy Fererh was three and a half when her father walked out. When she and Sol met, he was fifty-five and nearing the pinnacle of his legal career. She was a thirty-something stay-at-home mother who, with Sol’s help, made a career for herself as a Republican Party fundraiser. They kept their affair a secret—until an explosive mix of sex, power, betrayal, and prescription-drug abuse set the stage for the tabloid headlines of the decade.

Die Geschichte liest sich wie ein Hollywood-Thriller, ist aber wahr: Am 7. April 2018 verschwindet der deutsch-amerikanische Milliardär Karl-Erivan Haub im Gletschergebiet am Matterhorn. Der bestens trainierte Extremsportler hinterlässt keine einzige Spur, keinen Hilferuf, kein Zeichen eines Überlebenskampfes. Im Oktober 2018 wird die Suche nach ihm offiziell eingestellt, seine Leiche wird nie gefunden. Ein Bruder Haubs lässt den Unternehmer für tot erklären, was seine Macht in einem Firmenimperium sichert, zu dem unter anderem OBI, KiK und Teile von Zalando gehören.

A Fool Believes paints a stark and vivid picture of the life and anguish of a high-functioning addict and his inevitable collapse. On the surface, John is living the dream as a successful family man and the top car-salesman in Texas. But just beneath the surface is a rock-star lifestyle—sports cars, money, gambling, and drugs. Lots of drugs. As John’s sales tactics slide from unethical to criminal, and the thugs he’s in debt to and military clients he’s screwed over come knocking, the highs naturally take John to new lows.

In 2012, Craig Stanland made a choice that would cost him everything. After he had exploited the warranty policy of one of the largest tech companies in the world for almost a year, the FBI finally knocked on his door. Blank Canvas is a meditation on our remarkable capacity to rebuild and reinvent our lives. Through powerful storytelling, Craig proves that our greatest adversities do not have to be the end. Sometimes, they can be our greatest beginning.

En el imperio de Juan Carlos I, que abarca desde Panamá hasta Suiza pasando por los países árabes del golfo Pérsico, nunca se pone el sol ni, lo que es más importante, se acaba la liquidez. King Corp. sigue los pasos del dinero, como mandan los cánones del periodismo de investigación, sin olvidarse de recrear la atmósfera corrupta de una época y un país.

In Pirate Cove, Richard D. Bailey provides an insider’s chronicle of a white-collar crime whose headline-grabbing elements first appeared on the front pages of The Wall Street Journal. It’s the true, unvarnished, complete, totally untold, and fascinating story of how one honest man helped unravel the massive Southport Lane fraud perpetrated by the author’s former employer, 26-year-old self-proclaimed financial prodigy Alexander Chatfield Burns.

Described by one literary critic as "Jack Kerouac narrating the adventures of Thomas Pynchon's character, Tyrone Slothrop, only in Russia," Sovok takes you on a front-row view of the transition from Soviet Union to liberated Russia, and her return back to today's tyranny. McKinney describes his interactions for over 20 years with dissidents, billionaires, mob bosses, presidents, bureaucrats, and political leaders, while he constantly breaks laws and bends rules, as do most of the people he works with.

Ten years ago, Jess left a high-powered finance job to become a stay-at-home mom. She thought she’d left her past behind, but it keeps coming back to haunt her. First, there was the blackmail video of her cheating husband. Then, the revelation that her former co-workers were the ones responsible. Now, she’s being targeted by an international crime syndicate that’s hell-bent on silencing her. This is her incredible true story.

O Brasil assistiu nos últimos anos ao rápido crescimento da JBS, que, nas mãos dos irmãos Wesley e Joesley Batista, saiu da condição de pequena empresa familiar para transformar-se em gigante mundial. Já no auge do sucesso, Joesley trocou o seu iate Blessed (“Abençoado”, em inglês) por um novo e maior, que batizou de Why Not (“Por que não?”). O sugestivo nome parecia indicar os rumos que os irmãos estavam dispostos a trilhar. Por que não subornar políticos para aprovar leis que favorecessem a empresa? Por que não crescer contando com atalhos e privilégios de uma rede estatal de benefícios?