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...scoundrels who have bled their institutions dry through bad loans and insider dealings. Often court judgments are pending against the culprits, but the regulators or new banks holding the bad notes need to know whether the assets are sizable enough to pursue. "These are world-class con men who were just as sophisticated in hiding their money as they were in committing their fraud," says Pankau, a onetime Internal Revenue Service agent and a trained accountant...
Ephraim Gursky begins it all in the 19th century. The fugitive from Minsk becomes the thief of London and the prisoner of Newgate. Deported, he turns into the con man of the Klondike. This ultimate survivor begets 27 unacknowledged offspring, plus Aaron, who begets the predatory Bernard and the doomed and mysterious Solomon. The brothers beget a liquor business that makes them the intimates of gangsters during Prohibition and the cynosure of politicians ever after. Their descendants become various refractions of the founder: vulgar, sensitive, avaricious, undirected, lost...
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