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100 1  Jobb, Dean,|d1958-|eauthor. 
245 10 Empire of deception|h[OverDrive/Libby electronic resource]
       |cby Dean Jobb. 
264  1 Chapel Hill, North Carolina :|bAlgonquin Books of Chapel 
       Hill,|c2015. 
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505 0  The players -- Act 1 -- 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
       -- Act 2 -- 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 -- Act 3 -- The 
       trap -- The gang war -- The prisoner -- The return -- The 
       confession -- The reckoning -- The final swindle -- 
       Epilogue. 
520 2  "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 yellow journalism only contributed to the 
       excesses. 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--
       upwards of $400 million today--in phantom timberland and 
       nonexistent oil wells in Panama, close to the new Canal 
       Zone. 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"--Provided by publisher. 
533    Electronic reproduction.|bNew York|cAlgonquin Books|d2015
       |nAvailable via World Wide Web. 
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. 
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