Henry Carter Hull

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 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 suicide.

Provides a detailed account of the life of Bernie Madoff and his sixty-five-billion-dollar Ponzi scheme, examining interviews and details from court filings, lawsuits, and government investigations, and discussing the suicides, fractured families, and other personal disasters that have occurred since Madoff's downfall in 2009.

Abraham Licht, a nineteenth-century confidence artist, arrives with his family in Muirkirk and creates a criminal dynasty with his sons and daughter that changes their lives and all who come in contact with them.

"A revealing, in-depth analysis of the largest Ponzi scheme in history-with new details from Madoff himself. By the time his outrageous financial crimes were exposed, financier Bernie Madoff had stolen more than 18 billion dollars from thousands of investors. Madoff Talks offers the most complete investigation yet into the largest Ponzi scheme in world history-and a rare glimpse into the mind of its chief architect. For the first time, Madoff reveals...

By using true tales of thieves, swindlers, and fraudsters at work, Financial Serial Killers illustrates how these perpetrators get their hooks into investors' wallets, savings accounts, and portfolios-and never let go. The worst financial crisis since the great depression revealed that thousands of mom and pop investors had lost millions to so-called Mini-Madoffs. They are the thieves and conmen who had used phony financial acumen to steal investors'...

An engrossing account of wine fraud and forgery ... Hellman clearly knows his stuff. The Wall Street Journal [Hellman] presents ... the macho, competitive, one-upmanship world of the collectors, an atmosphere that perhaps contributed to their gullibility in the high-rolling economy of the early 2000s. The New York Times Heady, intoxicating ... shines a light on the esoteric and intriguing world of ultrarare, ultrafine wines. Foreword, starred review...