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Author Jobb, Dean, 1958- author.

Title Empire of deception : the incredible story of a master swindler who seduced a city and captivated the nation / Dean Jobb.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, [2015]

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY KORETZ    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  364.163 JOBB    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Non Fiction  364.163 JOBB    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  B KORETZ    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Biographies  B KORETZ    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  364.1 JOB    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  B KORETZ, LEO    Check Shelf
 Marlborough, Richmond Memorial Library - Adult Department  364.16 JOBB    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  364.163 JOB    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  364.16 J57    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description x, 336 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary "It was a time of unregulated madness. And nowhere was it madder than in Chicago at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties ... Enter a slick, smooth-talking, charismatic lawyer named Leo Koretz, who enticed hundreds of people ... to invest as much as $30 million--upwards 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"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-326) and index.
Contents Our Ponzi -- Ambitions -- The law -- The gamble -- The dupe -- The big idea -- The syndicate -- The hanging judge -- The sting -- The confidence man -- The crime fighter -- The bubble -- The flight -- The smash -- The sensation -- The double life -- The victims -- The manhunt -- The alias -- The guide -- The hideaway -- The prince of entertainers -- The crime of the century -- The pariah -- The womanizer -- The trap -- The gang war -- The prisoner -- The return -- The confession -- The reckoning -- The final swindle.
Subject Koretz, Leo, 1879-1925.
Swindlers and swindling -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography.
Lawyers -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography.
Capitalists and financiers -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography.
Fugitives from justice -- Nova Scotia -- Halifax -- Biography.
Ponzi schemes -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century.
Commercial crimes -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century.
Chicago (Ill.) -- Biography.
Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Chicago (Ill.) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.
Genre/Form Biographies.
ISBN 9781616201753 (hardback)
1616201754 (hardback)
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