Empire of deception : the incredible story of a master swindler who seduced a city and captivated the nation / by Dean Jobb.

Author: Jobb, Dean, 1958-

Physical Description:581 pages; 23 cm

Note:In a time of unregulated madness, nowhere was it madder than in Chicago at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties. It was the perfect place for a slick, smooth-talking, charismatic lawyer named Leo Koretz to entice hundreds of people to invest as much as $30 million--upwards of $400 million today--in phantom timberland and nonexistent oil wells in Panama. It was an ingenious deceit, one that out-Ponzied Charles Ponzi himself. In this rip-roaring tale of greed, financial corruption, dirty politics, over-the-top and under-the-radar deceit, illicit sex, and a brilliant and wildly charming con man on the town and then on the lam,Empire of Deception proves that the American dream of easy wealth is truly a timeless commodity.

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