Name the American author and former stockbrocker who pleaded guilty to fraud in 1999 after his brokerage house, Stratton Oakmont, defrauded many of its shareholders?
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Stratton Oakmont Stratton Oakmont, Inc. was a Long Island, New York, "over-the-counter" brokerage house founded by Jordan Belfort. It defrauded many shareholders leading to the arrest and incarceration of several executives, and the closing of the firm.
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Jordan Belfort Jordan Ross Belfort ( ; born July 9, 1962) is an American author, motivational speaker, and former stockbroker. In 1999, he pleaded guilty to fraud and related crimes in connection with stock-market manipulation and running a boiler room as part of a penny-stock scam. Belfort spent 22 months in prison as part of an agreement under which he gave testimony against numerous partners and subordinates in his fraud scheme. He published the memoir "The Wolf of Wall Street", which was adapted into a film and released in 2013.
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Alden Mills Alden Mills is an American businessman, entrepreneur, author, and former Navy SEAL.
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Thomas Powell (1809–1887) Thomas Powell (1809–1887) was an English writer and fraudster.
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Timothy Dexter Timothy Dexter (January 22, 1747 – October 23, 1806) was an American businessman noted for his writing and eccentricity.
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John Loftus (author) John Joseph Loftus (February 12, 1950) is an American author, former U.S. government prosecutor and former Army intelligence officer. He is a president of The Intelligence Summit and president of the Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg. Loftus also serves on the Board of Advisers to Public Information Research. Loftus is a author of numerous books on the CIA-Nazi connection including "The Belarus Secret" and "The Secret War Against the Jews", both of which have extensive material on the Bush-Rockefeller-Nazi connection.
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Tom Adkins Tom Adkins (born January 13, 1958) is an American political pundit, political writer, public speaker, real-estate investor, TV Producer and show host.
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R. Foster Winans Robert Foster Winans (born August 5, 1948) is a former columnist for "The Wall Street Journal" who co-wrote the "Heard on the Street Column" from 1982 to 1984 and was convicted of insider trading and mail fraud. He was indicted by then-U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani and convicted in 1985 of violating Federal law by leaking advance word of the contents of his columns to a stockbroker, Peter N. Brant, at Kidder, Peabody & Co., an old-line brokerage firm. Brant was decades later labeled a recidivist by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Winans' conviction for violating securities law was affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1987 as "Carpenter v. United States" by a rare 4–4 deadlocked vote. The Supreme Court unanimously affirmed his convictions for committing federal mail and wire fraud, however. He served nine months in federal prison.
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Michael Lewis Michael Monroe Lewis (born October 15, 1960) is an American non-fiction author and financial journalist. His bestselling books include "Liar's Poker" (1989), "The New New Thing" (2000), "Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game" (2003), "" (2006), "Panic" (2008), " Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood" (2009), "The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine" (2010), "" (2011) and "Flash Boys" (2014). He has also been a contributing editor to "Vanity Fair" since 2009. His most recent book is called "The Undoing Project".
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The House at Pluck's Gutter The House at Pluck's Gutter is a novel by Manning Coles, published in 1963, featuring the protagonist Thomas Elphinstone Hambledon.
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The Last Victim The Last Victim: A True-Life Journey into the Mind of the Serial Killer (1999) is a non-fiction work by author Jason Moss in which he details his fascination and subsequent correspondence with several notorious American serial killers.
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Thomas H. Cook Thomas H. Cook (born September 19, 1947) is an American author, whose 1996 novel "The Chatham School Affair" received an Edgar award from the Mystery Writers of America.
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Nomi Prins Nomi Prins is an American author, journalist, and public speaker. She has worked as a managing director at Goldman-Sachs for 2 years and as a Senior Managing Director at Bear Stearns for 7 years, as well as having worked as a senior strategist at Lehman Brothers and analyst at the Chase Manhattan Bank. Prins is known for her book "All the Presidents' Bankers" in which she explores over a century of close relationships between the 19 Presidents from Teddy Roosevelt through Barack Obama and the key bankers of their day based on original archival documents. Prins also received recognition for her whistleblower book, "It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bonuses, Bailouts, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street", for her views on the U.S. economy, for her published spending figures on federal programs and initiatives related to the 2008 bailout, and for her advocacy for the reinstatement of the Glass–Steagall Act and regulatory reform of the financial industry.
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Chuck Klosterman Charles John "Chuck" Klosterman (born June 5, 1972) is an American author and essayist who has written books and essays focused on American popular culture. He has been a columnist for "Esquire" and ESPN.com and wrote "The Ethicist" column for "The New York Times Magazine". Klosterman is the author of nine books, including two novels and the essay collection "".
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Barry Minkow Barry Jay Minkow (born March 22, 1966) is an American former businessman, pastor, and convicted felon. While still in high school, he founded ZZZZ Best (pronounced "Zee Best"), which appeared to be an immensely successful carpet-cleaning and restoration company. However, it was actually a front to attract investment for a massive Ponzi scheme. It collapsed in 1987, costing investors and lenders $100 million—one of the largest investment frauds ever perpetrated by a single person, as well as one of the largest accounting frauds in history. The scheme is often used as a case study of accounting fraud.
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Thurston House (novel) Thurston House is a romance novel by Danielle Steel. The book was first published on August 4, 1983, by Dell Publishing Company. The plot follows Jeremiah, a self-made, wealthy businessman who is looking for a lady in his life; he meets Camille, a younger female whom he had intentions to raise a great family with. For his growing family, Jeremiah builds Thurston House, which becomes one of the most symbolic mansions of San Francisco.
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William C. Pack William C. Pack is an award-winning novelist and former pauper turned senior executive on Wall Street.
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Andrew Kirtzman Andrew Kirtzman (born c. 1961) is a journalist and author who served as political reporter and anchor for six years at WCBS-TV (CBS 2) in New York City until April 2008. He is the author of "Betrayal: The Life and Lies of Bernie Madoff" about Bernard Madoff's $65 billion Ponzi scheme and "Rudy Giuliani: Emperor of the City," a book about the former mayor's tumultuous reign at City Hall. Kirtzman was with Giuliani on the morning of September 11, 2001 and chronicled his experience with the mayor in the paperback version of his book.
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Stephen Blumberg Stephen Carrie Blumberg (born St. Paul, Minnesota) is best known as a bibliomane who lived in Ottumwa, Iowa. After being arrested for stealing more than 23,600 books worth USD $5.3 million in 1990, he became known as the Book Bandit and was recognized as the most successful book thief in the history of the United States.
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John Stanley Pottinger John Stanley Pottinger (born February 13, 1940) is an American novelist, lawyer, banker, and former politician.
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Michael Malone Michael Malone is an American author and television writer, born in Durham, North Carolina. He is best known for his work on the ABC Daytime drama "One Life to Live", as well as for his best-selling works of fiction "Handling Sin" (1983), "Foolscap" (1991), and murder mystery "First Lady" (2001).
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Valerie Plame Valerie Elise Plame Wilson (née Plame; born August 13, 1963), known as Valerie Plame, Valerie E. Wilson, and Valerie Plame Wilson, is an American writer, spy novelist and former operations officer working at the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). As the subject of the 2003 Plame affair, also known as the "CIA leak scandal", Plame had her identity as covert officer of the CIA leaked to the press by members of the George W. Bush administration and subsequently made public. In collaboration with a ghostwriter, Plame wrote a memoir detailing her career and the events leading up to her resignation from the CIA, and subsequently wrote and published two spy novels. After a number of years out of the limelight, she later made the news for leading a campaign to raise enough money to buy a controlling interest of Twitter stock, in order to remove Donald Trump from the platform, as well as controversy surrounding antisemitic activity on social media, for which she subsequently apologized.