True White Collar Crime

Guilty Admissions weaves together the story of an unscrupulous college counselor named Rick Singer, and how he preyed on the desperation of some of the country's wealthiest families living in a world defined by fierce competition, who function under constant pressure to get into the "right" schools, starting with preschool; nonstop fundraising and donation demands in the form of multi-million-dollar galas and private parties; and a community of deeply insecure parents who will do anything to get their kids into name-brand colleges in order to maintain their own A-list status.

A portion of the proceeds from Front Row Seat will be donated to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Disease research and the Positive Coaching Alliance to help coaches lead and develop America’s future leaders. America's youth sports industry has changed dramatically over the past two decades. The days of playing for your town or local YMCA team, be it baseball, soccer, basketball or lacrosse were coming to an end.

All Porter Fischer wanted was the $4,000 Tony Bosch owed him. But Bosch would not pay him back, so he swiped Bosch’s Biogenesis ledgers as collateral. Fischer eventually examined the lists of clients and treatment plans revealed in the ledgers and saw what he really had: proof that major and minor sports figures came to the Miami antiaging clinic for anabolic steroids, human growth hormones, and other illegal drugs. That included one of the greatest sluggers in modern baseball history: three-time MVP Alex Rodriguez.

Jake Halpern introduces us to a former banking executive and a former armed robber who become partners and go in quest of "paper" - the uncollected debts that are sold off by banks for pennies on the dollar. As Halpern shows, the world of consumer debt collection is a wild and unregulated shadow land, where operators may misrepresent a debtor's situation, make illegal threats, and even lay claim to debts that are not theirs to collect in the first place.

Ist der norwegische "König des Kitsches" ein Steuerhinterzieher? Diese True Crime-Geschichte befasst sich mit dem exzentrischen norwegischen Maler Odd Nerdrum, dem vorgeworfen wurde, die norwegische Steuerbehörde um einen sehr großen Betrag betrogen zu haben. Ein vielschichtiger Fall, der so leicht nicht zu entwirren war.

Forty million Americans use some kind of online dating service and that number keeps rising. Every day online daters are defrauded out of tens of thousands of dollars by romance scammers. But did you know there is a new type of scammer you need to be educated about? Homegrown Romance Scams is written by an ex-scammer who will teach you everything you need to know about these scams.

When Lt. Commander Bobby Thompson surfaced in Tampa in 1998, it was as if he had fallen from the sky, providing no hint of his past life. Eleven years later, St. Petersburg Times investigative reporter Jeff Testerman visited the rundown duplex Thompson used as his home and the epicenter of his sixty-thousand-member charity, the US Navy Veterans Association. But something was amiss. Thompson’s charity’s addresses were just maildrops, his members nonexistent, and his past a black hole.

I Did It is the story of Gina Champion-Cain, the mastermind behind the largest woman-led Ponzi scheme in US history—$400 million. This real-life story includes a multitude of participants, banks, hedge funds, egomaniacs, and small-time crooks, all fueled by greed, stupidity, and a keen desire to look the other way. And even when they were looking in the right direction, all of these people and entities saw nothing.

Es ist der größte Steuerraub der Geschichte: Über Jahre ließen sich Banken und reiche Anleger mithilfe skrupelloser Anwälte Steuern vom Finanzamt erstatten, die sie nie gezahlt hatten. Mit anderen Worten: Sie stahlen unser aller Geld. Allein in Deutschland beläuft sich der Steuerschaden durch Cum-Ex und ähnliche Betrügereien auf circa 36 Milliarden Euro, in elf europäischen Staaten und den USA sind es insgesamt etwa 150 Milliarden Euro.

New York Times Bestseller #1. Die unglaubliche wahre Geschichte des begehrtesten Betrügers der Welt, die von Leonardo DiCaprio im Spielfilm von Steven Spielberg verewigt wurde. "Von Behörden und Nachrichtenreportern wurde ich als einer der gerissensten Scheckbetrüger, Trickdiebe und Gauner dieses Jahrhunderts bezeichnet, als Hochstapler vom Format eines Academy Award Preisträgers. Ich war ein Schwindler und Schauspieler mit erstaunlichen Fähigkeiten."

En México, la corrupción de las grandes empresas es igual o peor que la de los gobernantes: algunas corporaciones no sólo mueven toneladas de dinero para burlar la ley, sino que lo hacen con total impunidad. Prácticamente nadie investiga o castiga a las transnacionales que reparten sobornos. Este libro—ganador del Premio de Periodismo Javier Valdez Cárdenas 2019—rompe el círculo vicioso de silencio y simulación y les pone nombre y apellido a las compañías señaladas por malas prácticas, explica los esquemas de la transa y las razones de la impunidad desatada.

Three powerful men converge on the banks of the Red Cedar River in the early 1900s in southern Minnesota—George Albert Hormel, founder of what will become the $10 billion food conglomerate Hormel Foods; Alpha LaRue Eberhart, the author's paternal grandfather and Hormel's executive vice president and corporate secretary; and Ransome Josiah Thomson, Hormel's comptroller. Over ten years, Thomson will embezzle $1.2 million from the company's coffers, nearly bringing the company to its knees.

When Lisa Pratta started her career as a pharmaceutical sales representative, she had no idea of the industry’s depravity, and the endemic sexual harassment, bribery, and fraud she witnessed only got worse over time. Lisa hoped that might all change when she landed her dream job with a small company called Questcor which sold a drug that, when prescribed correctly, could help patients with multiple sclerosis. Yet Questcor realized they could make more money prescribing the drug incorrectly.

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.

Charles Deville Wells has two loves in life: Jeannette, his beautiful French mistress, and his sumptuous yacht, the Palais Royal. At the risk of losing both, Wells stakes everything he owns at the roulette tables in Monte Carlo's world-famous casino - and in the space of a few days he breaks the bank, not once but 10 times, winning the equivalent of millions in today's money. Is he phenomenally lucky? Has he really invented an 'infallible' gambling system, as he claims? Or is he just an exceptionally clever fraudster?

Fraud is an evil with a life of its own that leaves a financial, repetitional, and emotional toll on its victims. While monumental scandals such as Enron, WorldCom, and Madoff's Ponzi scheme make the front pages, fraud is a daily occurrence impacting companies and individuals alike. Faces of Fraud reveals must-know characteristics of fraudsters and the skills needed to outwit them.

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.

Die erweiterte und aktualisierte Fassung des Spiegelbestsellers. Warum hat Katar die WM bekommen und welche kriminellen Praktiken gehen im brasilianischen Fußball vor sich? Diese und viele weitere Fragen beantwortet Thomas Kistner, Sportjournalist der Süddeutschen Zeitung, in seinen investigativen Beiträgen, die als Grundlage dieses Werks dienen. Dafür hat er die mafiösen Strukturen recherchiert und seinen Bestseller FIFA-Mafia überarbeitet.

Eine Sammlung spannender, echter Kriminalfälle aus Dänemark, Schweden und Norwegen: Eine entstellte Frauenleiche in einem Kopenhagener Hotelzimmer; ein exzentrischer norwegischer Maler, der der Steuerhinterziehung angeklagt wird; zwei grausame Mädchenmorde im ländlichen Schweden; ein mysteriöser Leichenfund in einem Kopenhagener Park; ein Mini-U-Boot, das auf Leichensuche in einen norwegischen Fjord geschickt wird - diese Zusammenstellung unterschiedlicher True-Crime-Fälle kann es mit jedem Krimi aufnehmen.

I mångas ögon framstår Sverige som ett oskuldens och rättsstatens högborg. Men stämmer det verkligen? Historikern Kenth Olsson slår hål på den myten när han behandlar 30 av Sveriges mest omtalade affärer och politiska skandaler som tog plats under efterkrigstiden. Olsson lyfter fram före detta hemligstämplade dokument, korruption, spioneri och maktblinda personer som fritt härjat i ett krigshärjat Europa och skandaldrabbat Sverige.