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Chicago (Ill.) Biography Chicago (Ill.) Economic conditions 20th century Chicago (Ill.) Social conditions 20th century Commercial crimes Illinois Chicago History 20th century Fugitives from justice Nova Scotia Halifax Biography Large type books Missing persons Fiction Ponzi schemes Ponzi schemes Fiction Ponzi schemes Illinois Chicago History 20th centurySummary: It is the headline-making true story about the deceptions, lies and betrayals of Bernie Madoff, the man who masterminded the most heinous financial swindle of our generation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY WIZCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WIZJance, J. A.
Summary: "In New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance's latest thriller, Ali Reynolds faces her most controversial mystery yet, solving the murder of a man whose Ponzi scheme bankrupted hundreds of people, and left them seeking justice...or revenge. When Ali's parents lose their life savings to a Ponzi scheme, her father goes to confront his long-time friend and financial advisor, only to stumble...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2016
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JANCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Jance 2016Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS JANMandel, Emily St. John
Summary: Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass and cedar palace on an island in British Columbia. Jonathan Alkaitis works in finance and owns the hotel. When he passes Vincent his card with a tip, it's the beginning of their life together. That same day, Vincent's half-brother, Paul, scrawls a note on the windowed wall of the hotel: 'Why don't you swallow broken glass.' Leon...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MANCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction ManMandel, Emily St. John
Summary: ""Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass and cedar palace on an island in British Columbia. Jonathan Alkaitis works in finance and owns the hotel. When he passes Vincent his card with a tip, it's the beginning of their life together. That same day, Vincent's half-brother, Paul, scrawls a note on the windowed wall of the hotel: "Why don't you swallow broken glass." Leon...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MANBagshawe, Tilly.
Summary: Blessed with the face of an angel and the guileless, trusting nature of a child, Grace Brookstein is the prized wife of the king of Wall Street, Lenny Brookstein. Despite the stock market's terrifying collapse, the Brooksteins' glamorous lifestyle of polo tournaments and jets remains untouched--until the day Lenny goes sailing from their Nantucket beach estate and never comes home. When his...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAGMack, Stephanie Madoff.
Summary: The widow of Mark Madoff and daughter-in-law of Bernard Madoff presents an insider's account as an unsuspecting member of the family associated with the audacious Ponzi scheme, describing her idyllic marriage, her belief in her husband's innocence, their ordeals at the height of the media frenzy and her husband's tragic suicide.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Rider Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 MACBagshawe, Tilly.
Summary: Blessed with the face of an angel and the guileless, trusting nature of a child, Grace Brookstein is the prized wife of the king of Wall Street, Lenny Brookstein. Despite the stock market's terrifying collapse, the Brooksteins' glamorous lifestyle of polo tournaments and jets remains untouched--until the day Lenny goes sailing from their Nantucket beach estate and never comes home. When his...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harperluxe 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BAGDavies, Dan
Summary: "Veteran regulatory economist and market analyst Dan Davies tells the story of fraud through a genealogy of financial malfeasance, including: the Great Salad Oil swindle, the Pigeon King International fraud, the fictional British colony of Poyais in SouthAmerica, the Boston Ladies' Deposit Company, the Portuguese Banknote Affair, Theranos, and the Bre-X scam. Davies brings new insights into...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021
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Summary: "It was a time of unregulated madness. And nowhere was it madder than in Chicago at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties ... Enter a slick, smooth-talking, charismatic lawyer named Leo Koretz, who enticed hundreds of people ... to invest as much as $30 million--upwards of $400 million today--in phantom timberland and nonexistent oil wells in Panama ... When Leo's scheme finally collapsed in 1923,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KORETZ, LEO ROBJobb, Dean
Summary: It was a time of unregulated madness. And nowhere was it madder than in Chicago at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties. As Model Ts rumbled down Michigan Avenue, gang war shootings announced Al Capone's rise to underworld domination. Bedecked partygoers thronged to the Drake Hotel's opulent banquet rooms, corrupt politicians held court in thriving speakeasies, and the frenzy of stock market...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 364.6 JobbD'Erasmo, Stacey
Summary: After her husband Alan's decades of financial fraud are exposed, Suzanne's wealthy, comfortable life shatters. Alan goes to prison. Suzanne files for divorce, decamps to a barely middle-class Massachusetts beach town, and begins to create a new life and identity. Ignoring a steady stream of calls from Norfolk State Prison, she tries to cleanse herself of all connections to her ex-husband. She...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, a division of Workman Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC D'ERJance, Judith A.
Summary: "When Ali's parents lose their life savings to a Ponzi scheme, her father goes to confront his long-time friend and financial advisor, only to stumble into the scene of a bloody double homicide. With her father suddenly a prime suspect, Ali and her husband work to clear her father's name, while at the same time seeking justice for her parents as well as the scheme's other suddenly impoverished...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Jance 2016Mandel, Emily St. John
Summary: "From the award-winning author of Station Eleven, a captivating novel of money, beauty, white-collar crime, ghosts, and moral compromise in which a woman disappears from a container ship off the coast of Mauritania and a massive Ponzi scheme implodes in New York, dragging countless fortunes with it"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MANCopies Available at Kingsley
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MANCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAN1 available in Adult Display, Call number: FIC MAN