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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. Readers will learn how to better protect their family's wealth and savings after reading this book.
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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography
In this critically acclaimed true crime tale of "welfare queen" Linda Taylor, a Slate editor reveals a "wild, only-in-America story" of political manipulation and murder (Attica Locke, Edgar Award-winning author).
On the South Side of Chicago in 1974, Linda Taylor reported a phony burglary, concocting a lie about stolen furs and jewelry. The detective...
In this critically acclaimed true crime tale of "welfare queen" Linda Taylor, a Slate editor reveals a "wild, only-in-America story" of political manipulation and murder (Attica Locke, Edgar Award-winning author).
On the South Side of Chicago in 1974, Linda Taylor reported a phony burglary, concocting a lie about stolen furs and jewelry. The detective...
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Miramax Films
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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Joel is one step away from selling his flavor extract factory and retiring to easy street when a freak workplace accident sets in motion a series of disasters that puts his business and personal life in jeopardy.
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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The stakes have never been higher in the fourth season of Leverage, the thrilling crime drama that puts the viewer at the heart of the action. Timothy Hutton returns as Nate Ford, now more determined than ever to fight injustice with the help of his elite team of crack con artists.
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Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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With the team's leader, Nate Ford, now behind bars and his nemesis working for Interpol, a beautiful but mysterious stranger steps in to call the shots for TV's hottest gang of master thieves. Season Three of this action-packed series starts off with a bang as the teammates devise schemes to free Nate from prison, expose a trafficker's child slave-labor ring, and infiltrate a Department of Defense research lab to take down international terrorists....
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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"Leverage focuses on a team led by former insurance investigator turned thief, Nate Ford ... . Together, they try to level the playing field for people whose lives have been destroyed by the rich and powerful. In the final season of Leverage, the team will be forced to face changing personal dynamics as the relationship between Parker ... and Hardison ... heats up, and Nate continues to struggle with inner demons"--Container.
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Atria Books
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2024.
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English
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"Peabody and Emmy Award-winning journalist Jane Marie expands on her popular podcast The Dream to expose the scourge of multilevel marketing schemes and how they have profited off the evisceration of the American working class. We've all heard of Amway, Mary Kay, Tupperware, and LuLaRoe, but few know the nefarious way they and countless other multilevel marketing (MLM) companies prey on desperate Americans struggling to make ends meet. When factories...
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Paramount Home Entertainment
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[2010]
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English
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Follows a team of thieves, hackers, and con artists who act as modern-day Robin Hoods, standing up for the little guy who has been victimized by the rich and powerful. The team takes on corrupt bankers, high fashion, the tabloid media, and, most shockingly, an old nemesis from their past.
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A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009
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English
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Compares and contrasts what Bernie Madoff did with other Ponzi schemes throughout history. An additional documentary, Crash: The Next Great Depression? looks at the current financial crisis in the U.S. and compares and contrasts it with what led up to the Great Depression, its immediate aftermath, and the efforts that helped the country break free from it. Includes interviews
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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A $91 million cocaine heist. A devastating boat explosion. Two survivors. U.S. Customs special agent David Kujan is determined to find out who and what's behind the melee. As he pieces together the clues with the help of a half-charred Hungarian gangster and an outspoken, crippled con man from New York, Kujan soon finds out this story actually begins with five criminal minds, and one infamous mastermind..
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