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It was a time of unregulated madness. And nowhere was it madder than in Chicago at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties. Speakeasies thrived, gang war shootings announced Al Capone's rise to underworld domination, Chicago's corrupt political leaders fraternized with gangsters, and the frenzy of stock market gambling was rampant. Enter a slick, smooth-talking, charismatic lawyer named Leo Koretz, who enticed hundreds of people (who should have known better) to invest as much as $30 million - upward of $400 million today - in phantom timberland and nonexistent oil wells in Panama. When Leo's scheme finally collapsed in 1923, he vanished, and the Chicago state's attorney, a man whose lust for power equaled Leo's own lust for money, began an international manhunt that lasted almost a year. When finally apprehended, Leo was living a life of luxury in Nova Scotia under the assumed identity of a book dealer and literary critic. His mysterious death in a Chicago prison topped anything in his almost-too-bizarre-to-believe life. Empire of Deception is not only an incredibly rich and detailed account of a man and an era; it's a fascinating look at the methods of swindlers throughout history. Leo Koretz was the Bernie Madoff of his day, and Dean Jobb shows us that the dream of easy wealth is a timeless commodity. Empire of Deception Dean Jobb EMPIRE OF DECEPTION is the first book to chronicle the exploits of one of the slickest con men in history Itcaptures the intrigue and drama of Leos stranger-than Ben Hecht - Wikipedia Film historian Richard Corliss writes that "Ben Hecht was the Hollywood screenwriter[and] it can be said without too much exaggeration that Hecht personifies Name index for Canadian Jewry: Prominent Jews of Canada CANADIAN JEWRY: PROMINENT JEWS OF CANADA NAME INDEX Pages 1 to 59 Section A Pages 60 to 125 Section B Pages 126 to 191 Section C Pages 192 to 245 Section D BillGladstoneca Jewish genealogy Toronto Jewish PUBLISH OR PERISH: How I Got The Rubinoff-Naftolin Family Saga into Print From AVOTAYNU 2009 Zhlobin Market Street reads the caption of this rare postcard Reading Roundup: Top Picks of the Month MARCH 2017 Indie Next EXIT WEST by Mohsin Hamid THE STRANGER IN THE WOODS: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit by Michael Finkel A PIECE OF THE WORLD by
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