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Free Download Mississippi Swindle: Brett Favre and the Welfare Scandal That Shocked America (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D2PF8GP7 | 2024 | 8 hours and 5 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 234 MB
Author: Shad White
Narrator: Eric Burgher
How America’s youngest state auditor uncovered the largest public corruption scandal in the history of the nation’s poorest state. This riveting exposé details how a small team of auditors and investigators, led by the youngest State Auditor in the country, uncovered a brazen scheme where the powerful stole millions in welfare funds from the poor in a sprawling conspiracy that stretched from Mississippi to Malibu. Well-connected donors, highly placed officials, and popular public figures diverted tens of millions of dollars from the federal government’s TANF-temporary assistance for needy families-program until a Republican auditor, his small team of dedicated investigators, and a Democratic prosecutor joined forces to hold them accountable in the face of intense obstruction and harassment. Peopled with unforgettable characters-from the perpetrators; to the impoverished citizens for whom the money was intended; to the investigators, prosecutors, and reporters who held them to account-Mississippi Swindle is a political and true crime drama that highlights larger crises while appealing to a broad nationwide audience.

Free Download Mississippi Swindle: Brett Favre and the Welfare Scandal that Shocked America by Shad White
English | August 6th, 2024 | ISBN: 158642386X | 272 pages | True EPUB | 7.13 MB
How America’s youngest state auditor uncovered the largest public corruption scandal in the history of the nation’s poorest state

Free Download The mark inside : a perfect swindle, a cunning revenge, and a small history of the big con By Amy Reading
2012 | 304 Pages | ISBN: 0307272486 | EPUB | 4 MB
In 1919, Texas rancher J. Frank Norfleet lost everything he had in a stock market swindle. He did what many other marks did-he went home, borrowed more money from his family, and returned for another round of swindling. Only after he lost that second fortune did he reclaim control of his story. Instead of crawling back home in shame, he vowed to hunt down the five men who had conned him. Armed with a revolver and a suitcase full of disguises, Norfleet crisscrossed the country from Texas to Florida to California to Colorado, posing as a country hick and allowing himself to be ensnared by confidence men again and again to gather evidence on his enemies. Within four years, Frank Norfleet had become nationally famous for his quest to out-con the con men.Through Norfleet’s ingenious reverse-swindle, Amy Reading reveals the mechanics behind the scenes of the big con-a piece of performance art targeted to the most vulnerable points of human nature. Reading shows how the big con has been woven throughout U.S. history. From the colonies to the railroads and the Chicago Board of Trade, America has always been a speculative enterprise, and bunco men and bankers alike have always understood that the common man was perfectly willing to engage in minor fraud to get a piece of the expanding stock market-a trait that made him infinitely gullible.Amy Reading’s fascinating account of con artistry in America and Frank Norfleet’s wild caper invites you into the crooked history of a nation on the hustle, constantly feeding the hunger and the hope of the mark inside.

Free Download Ron Pesha, "The Great Gold Swindle of Lubec, Maine"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1626190089, 1540221474 | EPUB | pages: 208 | 2.1 mb
In 1897, a stranger named Reverend Prescott Jernegan arrived in Lubec and made a bold claim: he could extract gold from seawater. To do so, he used so-called accumulators of electrically charged rods in iron pots. Fooling many, he actually hid the gold beneath a wharf in the Bay of Fundy during the night. He and his accomplice, Charles Fisher, preached with fervent enthusiasm as they built their factory and encouraged inspections, which reversed doubters to greedy high-stakes investors. Hundreds of laborers accelerated factory expansion until July 1897, when Jernegan and Fisher fled. Although residents of Lubec attempted civil and criminal action, both men relocated, and fantasies of gold wealth flowed away. Relive the excitement, disappointment and anger of turn-of-the-century Mainers in this collection of accounts about the Lubec gold hoax.