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The Florida Fraud Files: True Stories of Con Artists, Scams, and Fortunes Lost
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ISBN13: 9798170767953
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 132
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.33 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 132
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.33 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A gold dealer's vault held painted blocks of wood. A celebrated music manager sold savings accounts backed by assets that were not there. A prominent lawyer invented confidential settlements. And a national veterans charity turned out to be an organization made largely of names on paper. The Florida Fraud Files follows thirteen documented schemes from promise to collapse. Across Fort Lauderdale, Tampa, Orlando, Ocala, Miami, and beyond, the cases move through precious metals, religious affinity, life-insurance investments, mortgage finance, Medicare billing, stolen identities, federal student aid, royal impersonation, timeshare resales, charitable giving, and clinical-trial data. Eli Strongrum looks past the easy mythology of the Florida con artist to show the systems that made each deception credible. Real policies supported false projections. Real patients supported false claims. Real schools, law offices, companies, and professional credentials gave invented transactions the appearance of ordinary business.
Based on court records, government proceedings, and contemporaneous reporting, the book distinguishes allegations from admissions, verdicts, settlements, appeals, and later sentence changes. It also separates gross receipts, intended losses, restitution, and recovery rather than forcing every case into one sensational number. The first volume in The State Fraud Files reveals a durable pattern: fraud succeeds when a document, title, or institution is accepted as a substitute for the fact it claims to prove.
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