Tag: Steal

The Art of the Steal Inside the Sotheby’s-Christie’s Auction House Scandal


Free Download Christopher Mason, "The Art of the Steal: Inside the Sotheby’s-Christie’s Auction House Scandal"
English | 2005 | ISBN: 0425202410 | EPUB | pages: 416 | 1.5 mb
The Art of the Steal tells the story of several larger-than-life figures – the billionaire tycoon Alfred Taubman; the most powerful woman in the art world, Dede Brooks; and the wily British executive Christopher Davidge – who conspired to cheat their clients out of millions of dollars. It offers an unprecedented look inside this secretive, glamorous, gold-plated industry, describing just how Sotheby’s and Christie’s grew from clubby, aristocratic businesses into slick international corporations. And it shows how the groundwork for the most recent illegal activities was laid decades before the perpetrators were caught by federal prosecutors.

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The Art of the Steal How to Protect Yourself and Your Business from Fraud, America’s #1 Crime, 2024 Edition [Audiobook]


Free Download The Art of the Steal: How to Protect Yourself and Your Business from Fraud, America’s #1 Crime, 2024 Edition (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CVSJ97RR | 2024 | 8 hours and 18 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 238 MB
Author: Frank W. Abagnale
Narrator: Barrett Whitener

The world-famous former con artist and bestselling author of Catch Me if You Can now reveals the mind-boggling tricks of the scam trade-with advice that has made him one of America’s most sought-after fraud-prevention experts. In Catch Me if You Can, Frank W. Abagnale recounted his youthful career as a master imposter and forger. In The Art of the Steal, Abagnale tells the remarkable story of how he parlayed his knowledge of cons and scams into a successful career as a consultant on preventing financial foul play-while showing you how to identify and outsmart perpetrators of fraud. Drawn from his twenty-five years of experience as an ingenious con artist (whose check scams alone mounted to more than $2 million in stolen funds), Abagnale’s The Art of the Stealprovides eye-opening stories of true scams, with tips on how they can be prevented.

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How to Steal a Presidential Election [Audiobook]


Free Download Lawrence Lessig, Matthew Seligman, Christopher Ragland (Narrator), "How to Steal a Presidential Election"
English | ISBN: 9780300278477, 0300278470 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~05:26:00 | 154 MB
From two distinguished experts on election law, an alarming look at how the American presidency could be stolen-by entirely legal means
Even in the fast and loose world of the Trump White House, the idea that a couple thousand disorganized protestors storming the U.S. Capitol might actually prevent a presidential succession was farfetched. Yet perfectly legal ways of overturning election results actually do exist, and they would allow a political party to install its own candidate in place of the true winner.

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