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-- Four nineteen.2012., Adult, Viking Call No: Fic Fer Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Step into the world's most insidious Internet scam that begins with a single email: "Dear Sir, I am the son of an exiled Nigerian diplomat, and I need your help...". When Laura's father gets caught up in one such swindle and pays with his life, she is forced to leave the comfort of North America to make a journey deep into the dangerous back streets and alleyways of the Lagos underworld to confront her father's killer. A story of love in a time of darkness, of one woman's search for redemption, and of a young boy who will triumph above it all.
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c2011., 8th House Publishing Call No: Fic Kin Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Robert Scroyle C.A., is the senior partner at Scroyle, Caitiff, Rudisbe and Spavin. He is married, has a girlfriend or two and is no stranger to a shady tax strategy thatœs just this side of legal. Now life is about to get a lot more complicated.Renzo Villiago is the founder of Ravishing Cosmetics, one of Scroyleœs most important clients. He has to find a business to buy that will solve what he sees as an accounting problem.Agustinho Bastinhado is an underworld figure with a big problem: too much cash. He has to hide it somewhere fast. Scroyle has to make both men happy or lose his business, maybe even his life.In a story that plays out on the streets of Montreal and in boardrooms populated by characters who are eerily familiar to anyone whoœs ever been in a downtown office building, Scroyleœs life spins out of control and begins to unravel. Kidnapping, undercover police operations, the netherworld of organized crime, a love story gone sourthis is not what a man who deals in certainties is meant to deal with.
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2018., Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Edition: eBook ed. Connect to this eBook title Summary Note: "The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of a multibillion-dollar startup, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end in the face of pressure and threats from the CEO and her lawyers. In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup "unicorn" promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would make blood tests significantly faster and easier. Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos sold shares in a fundraising round that valued the company at $9 billion, putting Holmes's worth at an estimated $4.7 billion. There was just one problem: The technology didn't work. For years, Holmes had been misleading investors, FDA officials, and her own employees. When Carreyrou, working at The Wall Street Journal, got a tip from a former Theranos employee and started asking questions, both Carreyrou and the Journal were threatened with lawsuits. Undaunted, the newspaper ran the first of dozens of Theranos articles in late 2015. By early 2017, the company's value was zero and Holmes faced potential legal action from the government and her investors. Here is the riveting story of the biggest corporate fraud since Enron, a disturbing cautionary tale set amid the bold promises and gold-rush frenzy of Silicon Valley"--
![Bad blood [eBook] : secrets and lies in a Silicon Valley startup](/Library/images/~imageCT100989.JPG "Bad blood [eBook] : secrets and lies in a Silicon Valley startup")
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2018., Alfred A. Knopf Call No: 338.7681 C314b Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of a multibillion-dollar startup, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end in the face of pressure and threats from the CEO and her lawyers. In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup "unicorn" promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would make blood tests significantly faster and easier. Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos sold shares in a fundraising round that valued the company at $9 billion, putting Holmes's worth at an estimated $4.7 billion. There was just one problem: The technology didn't work. For years, Holmes had been misleading investors, FDA officials, and her own employees. When Carreyrou, working at The Wall Street Journal, got a tip from a former Theranos employee and started asking questions, both Carreyrou and the Journal were threatened with lawsuits. Undaunted, the newspaper ran the first of dozens of Theranos articles in late 2015. By early 2017, the company's value was zero and Holmes faced potential legal action from the government and her investors. Here is the riveting story of the biggest corporate fraud since Enron, a disturbing cautionary tale set amid the bold promises and gold-rush frenzy of Silicon Valley"--
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[2017], General, Random House Call No: 364.16 K81b Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Steven A. Cohen is a Wall Street legend. Born into a middle class family in a decidedly upper class suburb on Long Island, he was unpopular in high school and unlucky with girls. Then he went off to Wharton, and in 1992 launched the hedge fund SAC Capital, which grew into a $15 billion empire. He cultivated an air of mystery and reclusiveness -- at one point, owned the copyright to almost every picture taken of him -- and also of extreme excess, building a 35,000 square foot house in Greenwich, flying to work by helicopter, and amassing one of the largest private art collections in the world. But on Wall Street, he was revered as a genius: one of the greatest traders who ever lived. That public image was shattered when SAC Capital became the target of a sprawling, seven-year criminal and SEC investigation, the largest in Wall Street history, led by an undermanned but determined group of government agents, prosecutors, and investigators. Experts in finding and using "black edge" (inside information), SAC Capital was ultimately fined nearly $2 billion -- the largest penalty in history -- and shut down. But as Sheelah Kolhatkar shows, Steven Cohen was never actually put out of business. He was allowed to keep trading his own money (in 2015, he made $350 million), and can start a new hedge fund in only a few years. Though eight SAC employees were convicted or pleaded guilty to insider trading, Cohen himself walked away a free man. Black Edge is a riveting, true-life thriller that raises the troubling question: Are Wall Street titans like Steven Cohen above the law?"--From publisher.
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c2008., A.A. Knopf Canada Call No: SC MYS Fic McC Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: The Isabel Dalhousie series.Summary Note: Isabel Dalhousie is asked to help a doctor who has been disgraced by allegations of scientific fraud concerning a newly marketed drug.
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2023., Adult, W.W. Norton and Company Call No: NEW Bio B218l Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When the author first met him, Sam Bankman-Fried was the world's youngest billionaire and crypto's Gatsby. CEOs, celebrities, and leaders of small countries all vied for his time and cash after he catapulted, practically overnight, onto the Forbes billionaire list. Who was this rumpled guy in cargo shorts and limp white socks, whose eyes twitched across Zoom meetings as he played video games on the side? This book sets out to answer this question, taking readers into the mind of Bankman-Fried, whose rise and fall offers an education in high-frequency trading, cryptocurrencies, philanthropy, bankruptcy, and the justice system. Both psychological portrait and financial roller-coaster ride, this book finds the author at the top of his game, tracing the mind-bending trajectory of a character who never liked the rules and was allowed to live by his own - until it all came undone.
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-- Frauds, quacks, and the real science of everyday life2014., Adult, ECW Press Call No: 502 S399i Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: An entertaining and digestible volume that demystifies science. Eat this and live to 100. Don't, and die. Today, hyperboles dominate the media, which makes parsing science from fiction an arduous task when deciding what to eat, what chemicals to avoid, and what's best for the environment. Navigating through the storm of misinformation to help us separate fact from folly and shrewdness from foolishness. Are GMOs really harmful? Or could they help developing countries? Which miracle weight-loss foods gained popularity through exuberant data dredging? Is BPA dangerous or just a victim of unforgiving media hype? Is organic better? Dr. Joe questions the reliability and motives of experts in this easy-to-understand yet critical look at what's fact and what<U+2019>s plain nonsense.
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c2013., Adult, Bond Street Books Call No: Fic Mog Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A solitary young woman is drawn into an online world run by a charismatic web guru who entices her into impersonating a glamorous but desperate woman. When Leila discovers the website Red Pill, she feels she has finally found people who understand her. A sheltered young woman raised by her mother, Leila has often struggled to connect with the girls at school; but on Red Pill, a chat forum for ethical debate, Leila comes into her own, impressing the website's founder, a brilliant and elusive man named Adrian.
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-- Sir Gregor MacGregor and the most audacious fraud in history.2004, c2003., Da Capo Press Call No: SC 941.1 S616l Edition: 1st Da Capo Press ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Details the hoax concocted by Scottish soldier Sir Gregor MacGregor, in which he fabricates the country of Poyais on the Mosquito Coast in Central America. A group of Scottish immigrants then attempted to sail there.
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By Lawson, Guyc2012., Adult, Crown Business Call No: Bio I73l Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: This story is a real-life thriller that tells the inside story of a hedge fund fraud and the wild search, for a secret market beneath the financial market we all know. Sam Israel was a man who seemed to have it all, until the hedge fund he ran, Bayou, imploded and he became the target of a nationwide manhunt. Born into one of America's most illustrious trading families, Israel was determined to strike out on his own. So after apprenticing with one of the greatest hedge fund traders of the 1980s, Sam founded his own fund and promised his investors guaranteed profits. With the proprietary computer program he had created, he claimed to be able to predict the future. But his future was already beginning to unravel. After suffering devastating losses and fabricating fake returns, Israel knew it was only a matter of time before his real performance would be discovered, so when a former black-ops intelligence operative told him about a secret market run by the Fed, Israel bet his last $150 million on a chance to make billions. Thus began his year-long adventure in the "Upperworld", a society populated by clandestine bankers, shady European nobility, and spooks issuing cryptic warnings about a mysterious cabal known as the Octopus. Whether the secret market was real or a con, Israel was all in, and as the pressures mounted and increasingly sinister violence crept into his life, he struggled to break free of the Octopus' tentacles.
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2011., Allison & Busby Edition: eBook ed. Series Title: DI Charlie Priest mystery.Summary Note: Charlie Priest is the kind of officer who likes to get on with the job, though his unorthodox ways have held him at inspector level for a record-breaking length of time; however Priest does get results. When Charlie suspects a businessman, with a background of extortion and GBH, of involvement in an international art fraud, he's taking on an enemy with friends in high places. But Charlie can be persistent to the point of recklessness and no threat will stop him..
![The Picasso scam [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT82160.JPG "The Picasso scam [eBook]")
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-- True story of botanical fraud.2001., Da Capo Press Call No: SC Bio H319s Edition: 1st Da Capo Press ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2014., Adult, Viking Call No: 025.04 S459v Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "How to separate fact from fantasy in the digital world. Digital information is a powerful tool that spreads unbelievably rapidly, infects all corners of society, and is all but impossible to control -- even when that information is actually a lie. Charles Seife uses skepticism, wit, and a sharp facility for analysis to take us deep into the Internet information jungle and cut a path through the trickery, fakery, and cyber skullduggery that the online world enables. Taking on everything from breaking news coverage and online dating to program trading and that eccentric and unreliable source that is Wikipedia, Seife arms his readers with actual tools for discerning truth from fiction online. Charles Seife is a professor of journalism and the author of Proofiness : the dark arts of mathematical deception"--Provided by publisher.
