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100 1  Jobb, Dean,|d1958-|eauthor. 
245 10 Empire of deception :|bthe incredible story of a master 
       swindler who seduced a city and captivated the nation /
       |cDean Jobb. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 Chapel Hill, North Carolina :|bAlgonquin Books of Chapel 
       Hill,|c[2015] 
300    x, 336 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-326) and 
       index. 
505 0  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. 
520    "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. 
600 10 Koretz, Leo,|d1879-1925. 
650  0 Swindlers and swindling|zIllinois|zChicago|vBiography. 
650  0 Lawyers|zIllinois|zChicago|vBiography. 
650  0 Capitalists and financiers|zIllinois|zChicago|vBiography. 
650  0 Fugitives from justice|zNova Scotia|zHalifax|vBiography. 
650  0 Ponzi schemes|zIllinois|zChicago|xHistory|y20th century. 
650  0 Commercial crimes|zIllinois|zChicago|xHistory|y20th 
       century. 
651  0 Chicago (Ill.)|vBiography. 
651  0 Chicago (Ill.)|xSocial conditions|y20th century. 
651  0 Chicago (Ill.)|xEconomic conditions|y20th century. 
655  7 Biographies.|2lcgft 
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