Greed in the Gilded Age: The Brilliant Con of Cassie Chadwick, Hazelgrove William Elliott
Автор: Weitz, Cassie Pike And Katy Название: Prey ISBN: 1789460840 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781789460841 Издательство: Bonnier Books Рейтинг: Цена: 8900.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: She thought they were her friends. She was too young to know she was in fact their prey.
Автор: Freeman Darren Название: Greed: Wall Street Crimes ISBN: 1733572732 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781733572736 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 7340.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Wall Street is the hub of money since it encapsulates big business and bank culture. This money grants Wall Street a lot of influence over the economy and Capitol Hill. This wealth can be really toxic to healthy politics and free economy processes. This power and sway over the country make it really hard for the masses to get their needs fulfilled. This is because the political influence of banks through campaign contributions and lobbying can sway decisions to soothe their personal greed. This Book Reviews 15 of the most Corrupt and Greedy Men to ever assault Wall Street
Автор: O`Brien Darcy Название: A Dark and Bloody Ground: A True Story of Lust, Greed, and Murder in the Bluegrass State ISBN: 1504008200 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781504008204 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 20220.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: An Edgar Award-winning author's true crime account of a grisly string of killings in Kentucky--and the shocking spectacle of greed that followed.
Kentucky never deserved its Indian appellation "A Dark and Bloody Ground" more than when a small-town physician, seventy-seven-year-old Roscoe Acker, called in an emergency on a sweltering evening in August 1985. Acker's own life hung in the balance, but it was already too late for his college-age daughter, Tammy, savagely stabbed eleven times and pinned by a kitchen knife to her bedroom floor. Three men had breached Dr. Acker's alarm and security systems and made off with the fortune he had stashed away over his lifetime.
The killers--part of a three-man, two-woman gang of the sort not seen since the Barkers--stopped counting the moldy bills when they reached $1.9 million. The cash came in handy soon after when they were caught and needed to lure Kentucky's most flamboyant lawyer, the celebrated and corrupt Lester Burns, into representing them. Full of colorful characters and desperate deeds, A Dark and Bloody Ground is a "first-rate" true crime chronicle from the author of Murder in Little Egypt (Kirkus Reviews).
"An arresting look into the troubled psyches of these criminals and into the depressed Kentucky economy that became fertile territory for narcotics dealers, theft rings and bootleggers." --Publishers Weekly
"The smell of wet, coal-laden earth, white lightning, and cocaine-driven sweat arises from these marvelously atmospheric--and compelling--pages." --Kirkus Reviews
"O'Brien creates a fascinating portrait of the mountain way of life and thought that forged the lives of these criminals." --Library Journal
Автор: Crockett James R. Название: Power, Greed, and Hubris: Judicial Bribery in Mississippi ISBN: 1617039187 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781617039188 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 41580.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: From 2003 to 2009 sensational judicial bribery scandals rocked Mississippi's legal system. Famed trial lawyers Paul Minor and Richard (Dickie) Scruggs and renowned judge and former prosecutor Bobby DeLaughter proved to be the nexus of these scandals. Seven attorneys and a former state auditor were alleged to have attempted to bribe or to have actually bribed five state judges to rule in favor of Minor and Scruggs in several lawsuits. This is the story of how federal authorities, following up on information provided by a bank examiner and a judge who could not be bribed, toppled Minor, Scruggs, and their enablers in what was exposed as the most significant legal scandal of twenty-first-century Mississippi.James R. Crockett details the convoluted schemes that eventually put three of the judges, six of the attorneys, and the former auditor in federal prison. All of the men involved were successful professionals and three of them, Minor, Scruggs, and fellow attorney Joey Langston, were exceptionally wealthy. The stories involve power, greed, but most of all hubris. The culprits rationalized abominable choices and illicit actions to influence judicial decisions. The crimes came to light in those six years, but some crimes were committed before that. These men put themselves above the law and produced the perfect storm of bribery that ended in disgrace.The tales Crockett relates about these scandals and the actions of Paul Minor and Richard Scruggs are almost unbelievable. Individuals willingly became their minions in power plays designed to distort the very rule of law that most of them had sworn to uphold.
Автор: Christman Rick Название: Fat Chance: Diet Mania, Greed, and the Infamous Fen-Phen Swindle ISBN: 1949669300 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781949669305 Издательство: Marston Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 30360.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: The shocking story of the weight-loss drug scandal that rocked a nation.
Автор: Freeman Darren Название: Greed: Wall Street Crimes ISBN: 1733572724 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781733572729 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 17450.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Wall Street is the hub of money since it encapsulates big businesses and bank culture. This money grants Wall Street a lot of influence over the economy and Capitol Hill. This wealth can be really toxic to healthy politics and free economy processes. This power and sway over the country make it really hard for the masses to get their needs fulfilled. This is because the political influence of banks through campaign contributions and lobbying can sway decisions to soothe their personal greed. This Book Reviews 15 of the Most Corrupt and Greedy Men to ever assault Wall Street
2012 Florida Book Awards, Silver Medal for Florida Non-Fiction
"FANTASTIC. If I did not know most of the main players I would have thought the author had a vivid and twisted imagination."--Paul Martin Brown, author of Wild Orchids of Florida
"A fascinating true story of obsession, greed, and lust for the unobtainable. Reminds me a great deal of The Maltese Falcon. This rare flower is definitely the stuff that dreams are made of."--Ace Atkins, author of Devil's Garden and Infamous
"Pittman has captured the extreme competition, unique characters, and general insanity that often typify the orchid world. The Scent of Scandal exemplifies how passion and profit can overrule common sense and the law."--Scott Steward, former associate editor, North American Native Orchid Journal
After its Peruvian discovery in 2002, Phragmipedium kovachii became the rarest and most sought-after orchid in the world. Prices soared to $10,000 on the black market. Then one showed up at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, where every year more than 100,000 people visit. They come for the lush landscape on Sarasota Bay and for Selby's vast orchid collection, one of the most magnificent in the world.
The collision between Selby's scientists and the smugglers of Phrag. Kovachii, a rare ladyslipper orchid hailed as the most significant and beautiful new species discovered in a century, led to search warrants, a grand jury investigation, and criminal charges. It made headlines around the country, cost the gardens hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations, and led to tremendous internal turmoil. Investigative journalist Craig Pittman unravels this tangled web to shine a spotlight on flaws in the international treaties governing trade in endangered wildlife--which may protect individual plants and animals in shipping but do little to halt the destruction of whole colonies in the wild. The Scent of Scandal unspools like a riveting mystery novel, stranger than anything in Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief or the film Adaptation. Pittman shows how some people can become so obsessed--with beauty, with profit, with fame--that they will ignore everything, even the law.
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