How to Steal A Lot of Money -- Legally

How to Steal A Lot of Money... Legally is a practical guide to investment scamming--a Gonzo approach to teaching financial literacy or financial literacy on steroids. The book is based upon true events and forensic insights gleaned from three decades investigating over $1trillion in assets managed by Wall Street.. The author, a former SEC lawyer and record $78 million whistleblower award winner, believes that through learning the art of investment scamming at the highest levels--involving the world's most respected and trusted (and therefore most dangerous) financial institutions--readers will be better equipped to defend themselves and their families in the life and death struggle that plays out every day between investors and Wall Street.. "A complete education should include learning the bad and the ugly--not merely the glorious and meritorious. The student should be taught what is, not merely what should be--the way things really work in the real world, not how they are supposed to work in a perfect world.. Lying, cheating and stealing are so commonplace in life generally, and in the world of investing especially, that they are not the exceptions. Scamming mercilessly overwhelms any so-called rules and devours those who play by them. So, learning "rules" without learning the even greater larcenous "exceptions" makes no sense--it's reckless. Schools and professors who teach the "rules" alone are negligent and put students, at a minimum, at a competitive disadvantage, or, worse still, in harm's way.. An education which ignores, or excludes, the study of pervasive repugnancies only ensures certain unscrupulous insiders will to continue to be able to blithely manipulate and mislead the clueless masses, depriving investors of their hard-earned savings and undermining confidence. For the student of investing, the choice is simple: either study bad behavior and be forewarned or risk losing everything you own."