True Crime Financial

Boaz Manor was a finance wunderkind. He started a hedge-fund company in Canada and later burst onto Wall Street with a product that could transform the crypto market. By all accounts, he was incredibly hard-working. Possibly brilliant. And...a shameless con man who ended up wanted in multiple countries. Chasing Boaz Manor explores Boaz’s schemes through the perspective of those he left in his wake.

In the high-stakes world of early 20th-century finance, two ambitious men thought they could outsmart the market—and almost brought down the entire U.S. economy in the process. Two Idiots, One Crash is the gripping, darkly funny, and surprisingly timely true story of Augustus Heinze and Charles Morse—two overconfident schemers who leveraged banks, backdoor deals, and bravado in a financial system built more on personality than policy. In 1907, their reckless gambles triggered a full-scale panic that toppled banks, destroyed fortunes, and sent Wall Street into chaos. With the U.S.

Step into the twisted universe of The King of the Peso, a pioneering Original series that blends intense storytelling with unparalleled immersion into a world of corruption on both sides of the border. Picho, voiced by the sagacious Harvey Guillén, serves as our guide through the intricate tapestry of frauds woven by his intimidating con man of a father, Pietro La Greca, played with captivating charm by the one and only Peter Stormare.

SECOND EDITION OF THE ACCLAIMED FINANCIAL THRILLER THE DAY THE VAULT WAS EMPTY Billions vanished. No vault was breached. No thief was ever found. When the global financial system locks up overnight, panic spreads faster than truth. Markets crash. Governments scramble. News cycles demand a villain. And they find one. Elias Kovač - a senior insider - becomes the face of the collapse. His image floods the media. The story settles quickly: the perfect crime, executed from the inside. But Daniel Bertarelli isn’t convinced. A financial investigator trained to follow anomalies rather than ...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The gripping story of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos—one of the biggest corporate frauds in history—a tale of ambition and hubris set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley, rigorously reported by the prize-winning journalist. With a new Afterword. “Chilling...

You’ve heard of the scheme. Now comes the man behind it. In Mitchell Zuckoff's exhilarating book, the first nonfiction account of Charles Ponzi, we meet the charismatic rogue who launched the most famous and extraordinary scam in the annals of American finance. It was a time when anything...

No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller is exactly what the title promises. This is more than another book about the Bernie Madoff scandal, this is a fast-paced, blow-by-blow, true-crime story that you have to hear to believe. In a true David and Goliath tale, the underdog number cruncher uncovers the largest financial fraud in history, and has to fight everything and everyone in the system to bring it down.

As a private banker working for the largest bank in the world, UBS, Bradley Birkenfeld was an expert in Switzerland's shell-game of offshore companies and secret numbered accounts. He wined and dined ultrawealthy clients whose millions of dollars were hidden away from business partners, spouses, and tax authorities. As his client list grew, Birkenfeld lived a life of money, fast cars, and beautiful women, but when he discovered that UBS was planning to betray him, he blew the whistle to the US government.

Clara Wynn makes her living in the unglamorous corners of truth—receipts, logs, rosters, and the small signatures people forget they leave behind. When four notorious, cold-case-era heists resurface through public records and local fallout, Clara isn’t chasing thrills. She’s protecting her community from the kind of harm that hides inside “routine” paperwork. A storefront deposit arrives bundled in a way real life money never stays bundled. A cash-logistics contract reveals that controls can be theater when the wrong person writes the numbers. A spectacular aerial robbery turns ...

MANUFACTURED is a short true-crime novella — a single case file. Written by Frank M. Ahearn, a longtime blackmail intervention specialist and author of the New York Times bestseller How to Disappear, this novella documents one blackmail situation exactly as it unfolded — from the first inconsistencies to the moment the pressure quietly collapsed. There are no dramatic confrontations. No chases. No heroic rescues. What unfolds instead is a slow reveal: how a believable narrative takes hold, how authority reinforces the wrong assumptions, and how money begins to move based on belief ...

The shocking story of Joe Hunt and the downfall of the Billionaire Boys Club—from social investing group to Ponzi scheme to murderers—told in a propulsive narrative by Randall Sullivan, now updated with a new afterword and soon to be a CNN miniseries. When it first came to the public’s...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF TIME’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR Sex and the City meets Bad Blood and Catch Me if You Can in this riveting true crime memoir that tells the astonishing firsthand story of Anna Delvey—the fake heiress who conned New York’s elite—and the friend she...

Ya se sabe que Marcial Maciel, fundador de la congregación, dedicó su vida a tareas poco espirituales, pero poco se conoce la habilidad que tuvo para crear una auténtica mafia financiera. Al establecer los cimientos del imperio, arrebató con engaños herencias de viudas, constituyó decenas de empresas fantasmas, cazó donativos con supuestos fines humanitarios e hizo negocios con príncipes, archiduques y barones de la realeza europea.

As DS Lucas Walker recovers from his injuries, he heads from Caloodie, Queensland, to the Gold Coast. Surfer's Paradise: a seaside city where gleaming high rises fringe sparkling surf beaches, sunny days lead to wild nights, and criminals and bikie gangs mingle with tourists and dignitaries at five star hotels, clubs and casinos. Before long, Walker is part of a team trying to solve a horrific home invasion and murder that has claimed the life of a young mother and left her nine-year-old daughter fighting to survive. Can he help them find the perpetrators, and keep the young girl safe?

From journalist Chris Blackhurst, Too Big to Jail unveils how HSBC facilitated mass money laundering schemes for brutal drug kingpins and rogue nations – and thereby helped to grow one of the deadliest drugs empires the world has ever seen. 'Packed with insights and details that will both...

At the height of the roaring 20s, Swedish émigré Ivar Kreuger made a fortune raising money in America and loaning it to Europe in exchange for matchstick monopolies. His enterprise was a rare success story throughout the Great Depression. Yet after Kreuger's suicide in 1932, the true nature of his empire emerged.

Each year Americans lose billions of dollars to fraudulent activity. The Madoffs Among Us explains in graphic detail how and why people fall prey. Most importantly, it tells you how to easily identify the people who perpetrate these crimes and avoid their deceitful practices. Why do smart people fall for these cons? What are today’s most common scams? And how can you avoid becoming a victim?

All types of organizations, for profit, not-for-profit, lawful, and unlawful, must be relentless in highly competitive, and constantly evolving environments. Every day iconic brands like Sears, Kodak, and Blockbuster vanish. Managers in lawful companies face disruptive technologies, groundbreaking new products, and competition from new entrants. Every organization must manage its way through a rapidly shifting world, or else fail. Yet some organized crime syndicates last decades despite massive law enforcement efforts and rival gangs directed at their daily demise. The American Mafia, which...

You’ve heard of the scheme. Now comes the man behind it. In Mitchell Zuckoff's exhilarating book, the first nonfiction account of Charles Ponzi, we meet the charismatic rogue who launched the most famous and extraordinary scam in the annals of American finance. It was a time when anything...

Before Enron. Before Madoff. Before Wall Street learned how to lie better… there was Crazy Eddie. From the outside, Crazy Eddie was a retail circus — screaming commercials, impossible prices, and a manic pitchman who became a Northeast legend. From the inside, it was something else entirely: • cooked books • phantom inventory • cash skimmed offshore • an IPO built on illusion • employees robbed blind Insane! Crazy Eddie is a firsthand account from inside the madness — told by a former employee who lived through the chaos, the scams, and the ultimate collapse of one of ...