Corporate Behavior & Responsibility, Securities, True Crime

Serpent on the Rock

Name: Serpent on the Rock
Author: Kurt Eichenwald
ISBN: 9780767923842

by Kurt Eichenwald

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Overview

A real-life thriller—the story of kickbacks and payoffs, of shady deals struck in secret with known felons; a story in which half a million people lose enormous sums—some their life’s savings—in the largest securities fraud of the 1980s, with names like Onassis and Bush numbered among the victims.

During Wall Street's crime wave in the 1980s, no single brokerage firm, banker, or trader destroyed the financial security of more people than Prudential Bache Securities. Investigating the story for The New York Times, Eichenwald obtained documents which eluded the SEC and criminal prosecutors. Here he tells the shocking true story behind this scandal. Photos.

About the Author, Kurt Eichenwald

KURT EICHENWALD has written for the New York Times for more than seventeen years. A two-time winner of the George Polk Award for Excellence in Journalism and a finalist for the 2000 Pulitzer Prize, he has been selected repeatedly for the TJFR Business News Reporter as one of the nation’s most influential financial journalists. His last book, the highly praised Conspiracy of Fools, was a New York Times bestseller. His book The Informant is currently in development as a major motion picture. Eichenwald lives in Dallas with his wife and three children.