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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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2018., Crown Call No: Bio L314w Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "The spellbinding tale of hustler Edgar Laplante--the king of Jazz Age con artists--who becomes the victim of his own dangerous game"--
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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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2011., General, Little, Brown and Co. Call No: 364.16 S214t Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: With unprecedented access to the surviving family members-wife Ruth, son Andrew and his fiance´ Catherine Hooper-journalist Laurie Sandell reveals the personal details behind the headlines. How did Andrew and Mark, the sons who'd spent their lives believing in and building their own families around their father's business first learn of the massive deception? How does a wife, who adored her husband since they were teenagers, begin to understand the ramifications of his actions? The Madoffs were" a tight-knit-even claustrophobic-clan, sticking together through marriages, divorces, and illnesses. But the pressures of enduring the massive scandal push them to their breaking points, most of all son Mark, whose suicide is one of the many tragedies that grew in the wake of the scandal.
