Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction Selling Air Why Now? Crash Postmortem How Greed, Hubris, and Lack of Supervision Did Investors In Why We Do It Bubbles and Fraud Securities Fraud Its Long and Storied Past The Perils of Greed It's All for the Easy Money The Elements of Financial Fraud A Case Study with "Crazy Eddie" Antar "Other People's Money" The O.P.M. Leasing Fraud Smaller-Company Fraud The "ISC" Story Selling Long and Short But Mostly Short Market Manipulation Improper Short Selling and Other Abuses PIPEs Investing Unfairly Promotion Fraud Pump and Dump Leaks, Front-Running, and Insider Trading Test Yourself Fictitious Volume A Pump-and-Dump Scam with Intrigue Parachute into Prison U.S. v. Schrenker Affi nity Group Fraud Scamming Your Own Community Twentieth-Century Ponzi Schemes Larger and Longer-Lasting Scams Hit Charade Lou Pearlman Hedge Fund Ponzi Fraud Hedge Funds Are for Big Boys Madoff and the World's Largest Ponzi Scheme The Mother of All Ponzi Schemes How Madoff Got Away with It Who Helped Plot in the Mother of All Ponzi Schemes; Who Can Be Made to Pay? Madoff Plea and Its Aftermath Governments Go after Merkin, Kohn, and Maybe Others in the Mother of All Ponzi Schemes
Mopping up after Madoff Lawyers Feast on Madoff Feeders in the Mother of All Ponzi Schemes Other Recent Ponzi Schemes Madoff was a Crook but He Had No Monopoly on Recent Ponzi Schemes Stanford Group Massive $7 Billion, Multinational Fraud Comes to Light Ultimate Chutzpah The Strange Tale of Marc Dreier, Esq Detecting Fraudulent Financial Schemes How Much to Regulate? How Much to Verify? Fraudulent Offerings A Short Look Auction-Rate Securities A $330 Billion Fraud? $132 Million Tax-Free Exchange Fraud Section 1031 Not Smart The Smart Online Trading Scam Boiler Rooms Where the Heat Rises Accounting Frauds With Examples Stock Option Frauds Alchemy That Benefi ts Insiders Odd and Unusual Financial Frauds Not Your Everyday Fraud Afterword: What Does the Future Hold? Notes About the Author Further Reading Index Table of Contents provided by Blackwell's Book Services and R.R. Bowker. Used with permission.