Empire of deception the incredible story of a master swindler who seduced a city and captivated the nation
In a time of unregulated madness, nowhere was it madder than Chicago at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties. Enter slick, charismatic lawyer Leo Koretz, enticing hundreds of people to invest as much as $30 million -- $400 million today -- in phantom timberland and nonexistent oil wells. In a rip-roaring tale of greed, corruption, deceit, and a brilliant con man on the town and then on the lam, Dean Jobb shows us that the American dream of easy wealt...
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