Fraud

Book: Americas 60 Families

This book was published in 1937 and written by Ferdinand Lundberg.

"The United States is owned and dominated today by a hierarchy of its sixty richest families, buttressed by no more than ninety families of lesser wealth… These families are the living center of the modern industrial oligarchy which dominates the United States, functioning discreetly under a de jure democratic form of government behind which a de facto government, absolutist and plutocratic in its lineaments, has gradually taken form since the Civil War. Thisde facto government is actually the government of the United States — informal, invisible, shadowy. It is the government of money in a dollar democracy."

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By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Confidence Games, Swindling and Diddling

Your diddler is minute. His operations are upon a small scale. His business is retail for cash or approved paper at sight. Should he ever be tempted into magnificent speculation he then at once loses his distinctive freatures and becomes what we term a "financier".

Master Jeremy Diddler

    Jeremy Diddler

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By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

The philosophy of the great faker Ferdinand Waldo Demara

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"In any organization there is always a lot of loose unused power lying about which can be picked up without alienating anyone. If you want power and want to expand never encroach on anyone else's domain but rather open up a new one."  — Fred Demara

"Fred" Demara on You bet your life with Groucho Marx

"The Great Impostor" movie

The movie is not that good.

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Free Ebook Yellow Kid Weil and His Grift

 

The book Yellow Kid Weil will illustrate for you how the politicians and police are in on the grift.   It also will teach you the basics of the short and long con game.  The storied career of Yellow Kid Weil is an entertaining read and pretty obviously the basis of the movie "The Sting".  

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Other related books on the same topic of confidence games

 

Originally learned of the Yellow Kid from Jean Shepherd / Youtube.

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

The Secret Recordings of Carmen Segarra The Goldman Sachs and New York Federal Reserve Bank Relationship

The Secret Recordings of Carmen Segarra
An unprecedented look inside one of the most powerful, secretive institutions in the country. The NY Federal Reserve is supposed to monitor big banks. But when Carmen Segarra was hired, what she witnessed inside the Fed was so alarming that she got a tiny recorder and started secretly taping.

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I wondered why the guys voice was rather nancy boy and then I saw the site is affiliated with NPR.  

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago