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Bank fraud. Forgery, Identity theft, Phishing, Moneylaundering, White-collar crime, Cheque fraud, January2008Société Générale trading loss incident, Terrorist FinanceTracking Program, Banco Intercontinental, Credit cardfraud,Automated teller machine, Advance-fee fraud ... Read more

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Save your money from this fraud!
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This digital document is an article from American Criminal Law Review, published by Georgetown University Law Center on March 22, 2010. The length of the article is 33060 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Financial institutions fraud.(Twenty-Fifth Edition of the Annual Survey of White Collar Crime)
Author: Sara A. Hallmark
Publication: American Criminal Law Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2010
Publisher: Georgetown University Law Center
Volume: 47Issue: 2Page: 595(51)

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Title: Financial institutions fraud.(Twenty-Fourth Annual Survey of White Collar Crime)
Author: Carolyn A. DeLone
Publication: American Criminal Law Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2009
Publisher: Georgetown University Law Center
Volume: 46Issue: 2Page: 621(50)

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This digital document is an article from American Criminal Law Review, published by Thomson Gale on March 22, 2007. The length of the article is 31272 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Financial institutions fraud.(Twenty-Second Annual Survey of White Collar Crime)
Author: Andrew Chung
Publication: American Criminal Law Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 44Issue: 2Page: 555(49)

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This digital document is an article from CMA Management, published by Thomson Gale on October 1, 2004. The length of the article is 839 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The economics of crime: identity theft and fraud are two of the most common white-collar crimes today. Both you and your company should be taking steps to stop them.(Information Technology)
Author: Lori Siebrasse
Publication: CMA Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2004
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Volume: 78Issue: 6Page: 47(1)

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and so it continues
This is a very well documented book. Everyone should read because our neighbors may not be whom we think they are. After brief prison time as stated in this book, Grambling moved into the quiet neighborhood of Stone Ridge, NY. He married into a prominent local family - she was his counselor while he was in prison. His wife now introduces him to his next victims. With her help, Grambling continues his scams on the local citizenry following the exact pattern decribed in this well documented book. ... Read more

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A dramatic look at fraud's role in our financial markets-and how you can protect yourself

Fraud In the Markets reveals the critical role fraud played in the global financial crisis-even as many of the perpetrators continue to go unpunished. Shedding light on the reckless conduct of the former senior executives at major Wall Street firms such as Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch and others just before their collapse, this timely book shows how the culture of "anything goes" on Wall Street fueled the innovation of exotic but deadly asset-backed securities.

A frank insider look at the most dramatic economic and business headlines in recent memory, you will find revealing discussion of

• The egregiously fraudulent lending practices that engulfed the entire US mortgage industry
• The brazenly deceptive marketing of asset-backed securities
• A road map to prevent similar disasters from recurring

Fraud in the Markets offers forward-looking advice, with practical guidelines for protecting yourself and your company from various forms of fraud that were found to have played a role in the current economic and financial crisis. ... Read more

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John McCain
This is in the book: "despite the occassional noble efforts of Washington insiders such as John McCain, ..." John McCain played a leading roll in the savings and loan scandal and should have gone to jail.He was best friends with Keating.McCain defines the problem.It's difficult to take this book seriously.

A Must Standard Text!
This comprehensive history and analysis should be a standard text for all who study economics, business and politics.Goldmann's indepth dissection of the events leading up to and creating the atmosphere that resulted in the "meltdown of 2007-2008" provides what should be a useful tool for all of us who are living through the effects of that crisis in the US and around the world, and in particular for those who are and will become the economists and economic leaders of the future. The writing is clear, uncompromising and fully transparent about the crisis and helps the reader understand how fraud insidiously crept into economic policy-making during the years and decades preceding the crisis. Highly recommended!

An Enlightening Retrospective
As the saying goes, those who don't learn from the mistakes of the past are destined to repeat them. That, in itself, is reason enough to read this book! In fact, Goldman's insights regarding the events of questionable legality and the blatant disregard of potentially devastating repercussions of greed -- both of which fueled the global financial crisis -- provide a retrospective like none other. He answers virtually every question about how and why the crisis occurred and leaves no stone unturned as he paints a sobering picture of widespread fraud over the years leading up to the crash. ... Read more

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At a cost of $500 billion to American taxpayers, the savings and loan debacle of the 1980s was the worst financial crisis of the twentieth century as well as a crime unparalleled in American history. Yet the vast majority of its perpetrators will never be prosecuted, and those who were have received minimal sentences. In the first in-depth scrutiny of the ways and means of this disaster, this groundbreaking book comes to disturbing conclusions about the deliberate nature of this financial fraud, the political collusion involved, and the leniency of the criminal justice system in dealing with these "Gucci-clad white-collar criminals."Using material from over one hundred interviews with government officials and industry leaders and recently declassified documents, the authors show howcontrary to previous government and "expert" explanations that chalked the disaster up to business risks gone awry or adverse economic conditionsS&L leaders engaged in deliberate fraud, stealing from their own corporations to speculate on high-risk ventures. Tempted by the insurance net, perpetrators looted their own institutions in a new kind of white-collar crime the authors dub "collective embezzlement."Big Money Crime also demonstrates how systematic political collusionnot just policy errorswas a critical ingredient in this unprecedented series of frauds. Bringing together statistics from a variety of government agencies, the authors provide a close reading of the track record of prosecutions and sentencing and find that "suite crime" receives much more lenient treatment than "street crime," despite its significantly higher price tag. The book concludes with a number of modest, but no less urgent, policy recommendations to counter the current deregulatory trend and to avert a replay of the S&L debacle in other financial sectors.FROM THE BOOK:"We built thick walls; we have cameras; we have time clocks on the vaults . . . all these controls were to protect against somebody stealing the cash. Well, you can steal far more money, and take it out the back door. The best way to rob a bank is to own one."House Committee on Government Operations, 1988 ... Read more

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The truth hurts
This book was well researched.I bought this book for the purpose of writing a research paper.However, it is an interesting read at the same time, very factual.Another book on this subject I would recommend is "S&L Hell by Kathleen Day

What everyone missed but payed for.
A rigourously detailed, cited, and sad indictment on one of the most significant domestic issuesin recent U.S.A. history.Read how the bankers and politicians saw it coming, but instead of prevention,deliberatly increased the magnitude of the crisis to a level of suchmassive debt, that the American public would be forced to flip the billinstead of the criminals who are at fault. ... Read more

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Prepared for a special Senate Committee investigation, this authoritative volume fully explores the functions and characteristics of offshore bank and company havens. ... Read more

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When his father lost his home and almost everything he owned in the Lloyds Insurance meltdown, Darius Guppy swore revenge. He cold-bloodedly set out to restore the family fortune by swindling Lloyds out of #1.8 million, with a daring scheme. He tricked Lloyds out of the money by pretending he had been robbed at gunpoint of a stash of precious stones. Lloyds paid up and Guppy - at the age of 25 - was a millionaire. Nearly two years later the law caught up with him. He was disgraced and sentenced to six years in jail. Now free, Guppy tells his story in this book. He reveals his wild adventures with Lord Spencer, of gold smuggling in India, of dealings with gunmen in New York, and his passionate love for his wife Patricia. ... Read more

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Not just another crime story
One of the previous reviewers, using the name `Unforgiven', is in fact none other than the informant in the Darius Guppy story, a Peter Risdon.

This can be seen at [...] This is important because I think there is a different angle to this book, which I enjoyed very much, than other reviewers have pointed out. So while the whole Darius Guppy trial in the UK was a sensation because of the Royal connections, a jewellery robbery in a New York hotel, an act of vengeance against Lloyds of London (a large UK insurance company who had bankrupted Guppy's father along with many other `names'), keeping one step ahead of the law and all the other ingredients of a Hollywood movie, in fact underneath all of that is a another tale, the tale of a man, (the informant), who became obsessed with the other members of the team, in particular Darius Guppy, and how he was driven to betray his accomplices, not just to save his own skin from the cops but also by a bitter jealousy towards people who represented everything he wanted to be in life. It's also interesting how far the authorities were prepared to go to protect their informant in order to nail the rest of the team.

I won't spoil the plot for other readers but this is a really fascinating tale, not just because of its glamour factor but also because it deals with the old themes of envy and betrayal.

I recommend it as a great read and also recommend viewers to visit the website above because it contains a lot of useful material and evidence about how Darius Guppy and his partners were eventually caught, one year after pulling off their sting.

Excellent
I had almost forgotten the Darius Guppy story until a friend of mine reminded me about it recently. So I decided to read Roll the Dice. Like a previous reviewer I thought that the editing left a lot to be desired but this may be the result of the two voices that can be detected in the book. The first voice comes across as the co-writer's or editor's where the style is more journalistic and racy. The second voice seems to be the author's itself, where the style is much more literate and reflective. It is this tension between what the co-author wants him to say and what the man himself wants to write that may account for the rather disjointed writing style and it is here that decent editing would have made a difference. A pity.

Having said this, I found the story immensely entertaining and interesting. Darius does not come across as remotely arrogant but as thoughtful and passionate and driven by conflicting forces.

In fact 'Elizebethan' is a word that springs to mind in considering his adventures - cunning, bold, foolhardy, noble, brave, foolhardy and no doubt sheer mad.

Although in the end he went to prison owing not so much to clever detective work as to the evidence of a police informer one senses that the final victory is his. All the forces of the police, Lloyds of London, the courts and the British media were unable to break him. He seems at the very least a fascinating man.

Well worth the read and it seems amazing that they haven't made a film of this book yet, especially when we consider how much the man packed in while he was still in his early twenties. Wonder what he's up to now.

Interesting Read
Guppy comes across as a sharp focused egotistic and intelligent individual... believe me it takes one to know one.

Interesting read.

Fantasy from Britain's most incompetent criminal
Guppy wasn't content merely to be busted for every crime he committed. He was caught three times smuggling gold and once for a crime, video counterfeiting, that he was still just planning. But his incompetence stretched also to his business activities. Riding the coat tails of the father of his business partner, Delerious (as the police christened him) raised over a million pounds from shareholders, cashed it and went round the world buying gemstones. And he was scammed, burned, conned and tricked at every turn. Faced with an inventory of paste, instead of gems, he conconcted the idea of a fake robbery in New York. But with a twist - he hired someone to help stage the robbery, then framed them for actually robbing him, as a precaution. If things went wrong, he reasoned, he'd be able to say he had actually been robbed. But the man sussed him out, partly by bugging D.'s house, phone and car. Two asides - While being bugged, D. hired the man who was doing it to de-bug his house. Sadly, nothing was found. And one of the dozens of tapes made during this time was released to the press, and embarrassed the rising Tory politician Boris Johnson. So Guppy found himself being shopped by the man he had himself shopped. No deals involved, no grassing - the man wasn't even charged with any offences. Guppy picked a fight and lost. Prosecution witnesses queued around the block, including all but one of Guppy's business associates - and that was the one in the dock beside him. Released from jail, bankrupt and disgraced, exposed again for criminal scheming by a newspaper, Guppy ran away from Britain and has never returned. None of this is in this contemptible little book. It will please fantasists and criminals. But nobody else.

Great story
Although this book is let down by poor editing, the story itself is something of a classic. In many parts hilariously recounted, Roll the Dice tells how a brilliant young man who seemingly had it all staged an armedrobbery of precious gems in a New York hotel and manged to convince Lloydsof London to pay out some £2M in insurance moneys. The fact that Lloydshad, in the eyes of the author, been responsible for his father's loss ofan equivalent sum, was sweet revenge to him. Although some would see thisas a convenient explanation, to be fair to Guppy, he makes clear that thiswas only part of his motivation, with sheer bravado and boredom with thegilded society in which he mixed playing at least as important a role. Twoyears after his sting against the world's largest insurers, however, he wasbetrayed by a supergrass who had struck a deal with police officers inreturn for leniency for his own criminal endeavours and Guppy found himselfin Brixton jail. For me the most fascinationg aspect of the story is theinsight given into the author's character. As a result of his exploits,Guppy became for a number of years a favourite subject matter for theBritish media - hardly surprising since his story could have come straightout of a Hollywood blockbuster - but his portrayal at their hands was atbest two dimensional and, more often than not, plain libellous. One cannothelp feeling that many of the criticisms levelled agaisnt him were promptedby envy and a sense of schadenfreude. The reader detects an interesting mixof anarchism and puritanism in the author, together with a profounddissatisfaction with the privileged and vacuous sloane ranger set withwhich he came into contact as a result of his upbringing. It is quiteclear, for example, that he feels more at home with the armed robbers andassorted villains he meets in prison, and whom he describes as moreinteresting, more honourable and, paradoxically, more honest than thecocktail party set he found so dull. Interesting too is his friendship withEarl Spencer, brother of the Princess of Wales, with whom he bonds despitehis background and not because of it, and also his love affair with aworking class girl from the North of England whom he marries and with whomhe has a child. Although a number of reviewers have labelled Guppy"arrogant" as a rsult of his actions, this seems a faultydescription. Far from being arrogant, Guppy comes across as an intelligentand able young man with a sense of humour who feels empathy with those lessfortunate than himself, such as his fellow inmates in jail, and as someonewho has a deep sense of loyalty towards his family and friends. Onesuspects that it is his hatred of the media and his contempt for the upperechelons of English society and of the establishment whom he regards ashypocritical and immoral that have, in fact, earned him the label"arrogant." Rather, Guppy is a character with which any buccaneerfrom Elizabethan times or any 19th Century Anarchist would have identified.The world would surely be a duller place without such people. ... Read more

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Title: Cracking Down on Corporate Crime.
Author: Barry Brandman
Publication: CMA Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2000
Publisher: Society of Management Accountants of Canada
Volume: 74Issue: 5Page: 38

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