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The New York Fraud Files: True Stories of Con Artists, Scams, and Fortunes Lost

The New York Fraud Files: True Stories of Con Artists, Scams, and Fortunes Lost

Strongrum, Eli

Paperback

Series: The State Fraud Files

True Crime

ISBN13: 9798175803007
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 20 2026
Pages: 126
Weight: 0.36
Height: 0.32 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
New York sells access. A respected name, a Wall Street office, a lawyer's reputation, a gallery's confidence, or a government contract can make a promise feel checked before anyone has looked behind the paper.

In The New York Fraud Files, Eli Strongrum follows thirteen documented cases from Grant & Ward and Richard Whitney to Crazy Eddie, Computer Associates, Bernard Madoff, CityTime, the Knoedler art scandal, and the collapse of Archegos. The stories are drawn from court opinions, guilty pleas, sentencing records, government reports, agency actions, and dated appellate records.

Each chapter asks what people were promised, who controlled the evidence, how the money moved, and which ordinary check might have exposed the gap. The book keeps allegations separate from convictions and does not treat money raised, loss, restitution, forfeiture, and recovery as the same number.

Written in plain language for general readers, this is a close look at how trust becomes a financial tool and what the record shows after the promise breaks.

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