More than eighty entries in this fascinating book examine America's most underhanded plots-and the dishonest men and women who created and perpetrated them. Detailed and captivating coverage includes schemes and frauds such as accident faking, cash machine rackets, the Gold Brick swindle, Lord Gordon-Gordon, Charles Ponzi, the Spanish Prisoner, and much more.
Entries inlcude:
Albert Adams
Rev. Jim Bakker
The Black Sox Scandal
Ivan Boesky
Check Passing
The Great Diamond Hoax
Charles Keating
Medical Quackery
The New York Lottery Swindle
Maria Monk
Pyramid Schemes
Watered Stock.
