Author : Michael Waldman
Publisher : Random House (NY)
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 39,45 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
The first straightforward, comprehensive explanation of the savings and loan scandal--what happened, why it happened and which politicians in Washington are to blame.
Author : J. North Conway
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 27,64 MB
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0762766808
ANOTHER TRUE CRIME STORY FROM J. NORTH CONWAY—NOW IN PAPERBACK! The riveting story of one of America’s most notorious crimes and the mysterious man behind it “Engrossing. . . . Conway skillfully paints a backdrop of fierce and flamboyant personalities who paraded across the Gilded Age. . . . [H]e capably recounts his story against a background of glitter and greed.” —Publishers Weekly “A page-turning account of one of the most brazen crimes of our time.” —Reader’s Digest “Conway, a college prof and ex-newspaper man, covers this ancient tale in a way that makes it feel like a hot news story.” —New York Post King of Heistsis a spellbinding and unprecedented account of the greatest bank robbery in American history, which took place on October 27, 1878, when thieves broke into the Manhattan Savings Institution and stole nearly $3 million in cash and securities—around $50 million in today’s terms. Bringing the notorious Gilded Age to life in a thrilling narrative, J. North Conway tells the story of those who plotted and carried out this infamous robbery, how they did it, and how they were tracked down and captured. The robbery was planned to the minutest detail by criminal mastermind George Leonidas Leslie—a society architect and ladies’ man whose double life as the nation’s most prolific bank robber led him to be dubbed the “King of the Bank Robbers.” An absorbing tale of greed, sex, crime, betrayal, and murder, King of Heistsblends all the richness of history with the thrills of the best fiction.
Author : Jerry Clark
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 14,29 MB
Release : 2015-07-09
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1442235462
No crime is as synonymous with America as bank robbery. Though the number of bank robberies nationwide has declined, bank robbery continues to captivate the public and jeopardize the safety of banks and their employees. In A History of Heists, Jerry Clark and Ed Palattella explore how bank robbers have influenced American culture as much as they have reflected it. Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, Bonnie and Clyde, John Dillinger, Willie Sutton, and Patty Hearst are among the most famous figures in the history of crime in the United States. Jesse James used his training as a Confederate guerrilla to make bank robbery a political act. John Dillinger capitalized on the public’s scorn of banks during the Great Depression and became America’s first Public Enemy Number One. When she held up a bank with the leftist Symbionese Liberation Army, Patty Hearst fueled the country’s social unrest. Jerry Clark and Ed Palattella delve into the backgrounds and motivations of the robbers, and explore how they are as complex as the nation whose banks they have plundered. But as much as the story of bank robbery in America focuses on the thieves, it is also a story of those who investigate the heists. As bank robbers became more sophisticated, so did the police, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and other law enforcement agencies. This captivating history showshow bank robbery shaped the modern FBI, and how it continues to cultivate America’s fascination with the noble outlaw: bandits seen, rightly or wrongly, as battling unjust authority.
Author : Athena M. Roe
Publisher : Bookbaby
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,24 MB
Release : 2018-01-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780692751756
ROBBED discusses health care and estate administration policy that often runs contrary to America's Founding Documents including the Constitution, The Bill of Rights, and The Declaration of Independence. There are stories and solutions to policy that many Americans overlook our lives are transformed though rules, codes, or agendas. It is no surprise that America's health care bill continues to escalate and consume nearly 20 percent of the Gross Domestic Product or a astonishing $3.2 trillion. Just as important, nearly $18 trillion dollars will pass through America's probate tribunals over the next decade. Estate Administration is just as big if not a larger business than health care. The salient point is these tribunals are not monitored for fraud, waste, or abuse that runs rampant in this "confidential arena." The victims of crime have virtually no recourse as they are coerced into signing non-disparagement and non-disclosure contracts, to keep the offenders identity secret. This runs adverse to the First Amendment and the Fourteenth Amendment. Victims are denied the opportunity to present evidence in these tribunals in order to divert assets without recourse. While a fraction of these crimes make headlines, the industry is protected from a back lash by the public. ROBBED is a must read for every American. This is not a partisan issue, and fraud, waste, and abuse in both industries will continue to erode our economic stability. The book provides examples, and in no way over generalizes about these timely issues. There are interviews with Dr. Joseph Postell, and the legal authorities granted Athena Roe permission to use their Law Reviews, research materials, and books, Regulatory Chief Neomi Rao, constitutional scholars, Erwin Chemerinsky, Philip Hamburger, Dr. Kevin Dutton, of Oxford University and Dr. Karin Huffer of John Jay Criminal College, Equal Access Advocates, and more . Several chapters present solutions, and review the language of our Founding Fathers. The Bibliography section contains all research articles for further study if readers are inclined to understand the administrative state.
Author : Thomas Byrnes
Publisher : Lyons Press
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 49,21 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
This compendium of nearly 400 criminals, with mug shot, description, and the record of each, was first published in 1886. The author, Inspector Thomas Byrnes, was famous for his success in clearing New York's streets of criminals, some of whose stories are recorded here. Byrnes' accounts reveal his extensive knowledge of the crime world of America's big cities in his own time. Chapters are included on unsolved murders, and general topics including police method, the methods used by criminals for different types of crime, and a state-by-state list of police commutation laws. c. Book News Inc.
Author : Debra Weyermann
Publisher : Poseidon Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 26,24 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780671731311
Recounts the largest bank robbery in United States history, and describes how questionable tactics used by the FBI led to the acquittal of their main suspects
Author : Paul Sperry
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,84 MB
Release : 2011-01-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1595553827
The author of Crude Politics and Infiltration offers an analysis of public policy’s role in the 2008 financial crisis. You may not realize it, but you helped pay for a $10 million, fourteen-month government “investigation” of the housing collapse. Only your $10 million didn’t buy much, and it certainly didn’t buy truth; any hope of that went out the window on day one. The congressionally appointed panel—made up primarily of anti-market, historic revisionists—managed to shift the blame away from Washington and onto mortgage lenders and “greedy” Wall Street executives, while protecting the real culprits at the core of the crisis: POLITICIANS LIKE THEMSELVES. It’s not about Democrat or Republican, left or right, black or white. It’s about the usual suspects—money and power and the people who use government to manipulate them for private advantage. The Great American Bank Robbery maps out in detail exactly how Washington social engineers and their accomplices reshaped banking regulations and housing policies and gutted time-tested underwriting standards that led to the worst financial calamity since the 1930s, one that has robbed American households of $14 trillion in net worth. And they’re not done yet . . .
Author : Ira Berkow
Publisher : Diversion Publishing Corp.
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 13,7 MB
Release : 2014-08-12
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1626813868
This Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s true account of the thief behind the famed 1972 heist is “an engrossing crime biography . . . [and] a fast-paced romp” (Kirkus Reviews). Growing up in Rochester, New York, Bobby Comfort wanted to be a good something. It just so happened that he was great at being a criminal. In January 1972, men in tuxedos robbed the Pierre, the luxurious Manhattan hotel, and got away with eleven million dollars’ worth of cash and jewelry. The police were baffled by how such a large-scale operation could go off so smoothly. The answer lay in the leader of the thieves, a man by the name of Bobby Comfort. He had taken to crime from a young age with card sharping and petty theft. Eventually, taking money from the rich was where he excelled. Sort of like Robin Hood—except for the part where he kept the loot himself—Comfort masterminded what was, at the time, the most lucrative heist in history, while appearing to his neighbors like an ordinary suburban family man. In this blend of insightful biography and true crime, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Ira Berkow chronicles the story, using first-hand accounts to weave together a fascinating portrait of a criminal and “a corking good cops-and-robbers tale” (Library Journal).
Author : Eric Borsuk
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 12,42 MB
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1684424526
AS SEEN IN THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE “One of the most esoteric and far-fetched crimes in 21st-century annals.” —The Hollywood Reporter “A rare book heist that Danny Ocean may have applauded—except for one mistake.” —Vanity Fair “A tragicomedy of errors.” —Salon “They are the young people, the people with the idealism, the passion, the courage to do something interesting with their lives: an act of daring almost artistic in its originality. They are almost right.” —The Guardian “One of the biggest art heists in FBI history.” —The Times of London American Animals is a coming-of-age crime memoir centered around three childhood friends: Warren, Spencer, and Eric. Disillusioned with freshman year of college and determined to escape from their mundane Middle-American existences, the three hatch a plan to steal millions of dollars’ worth of artwork and rare manuscripts from a university museum. The story that unfolds is a gripping adventure of teenage rebellion, from page-turning meetings with black-market art dealers in Amsterdam to the opulent galleries of Christie’s auction house in Rockefeller Center. American Animals ushers the reader along a gut-wrenching ride of adolescent self-destruction. Providing a front-row seat to the inception, planning, and execution of the heist while offering a rare glimpse into the evolution of a crime—all narrated by one of the perpetrators in a darkly comic, action-packed, true-crime caper.
Author : John James Audubon
Publisher :
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 22,43 MB
Release : 1842
Category : Birds
ISBN :
This edition has 65 new images, making a total of 500. The original configurations were altered so that there is only one species per plate. The text is a revision of the Ornithological Biography, rearranged according to Audubon's Synopsis of the Birds of North America (1839).
