The Money the Mob and Wall Street (ePub)

Wall Street today is focused laser-like on producing fast, huge profits principally for the benefit of financial firms top executives. The Money, the Mob and Wall Street is the story of Wade Simon, a standout basketball player from UNLV, who, after graduating from college, goes to work on Wall Street and eventually becomes the CEO of a Wall Street brokerage firm. There he is introduced to the world of fast-talking scam artists and white-collar criminals. The story takes you into the canyons of lower Manhattan and the backroom financial chop shops, where you will meet members of organized crime and their associates. You will see firsthand how the mob owns or controls brokerage firms on Wall Street through front men. You will meet Angelo Santinoan old-world Mafia don, who, after retiring from a life of street crime, became attracted to the easy money of Wall Streetand his partner, Albert Klinea Wall Street executive whose only goal in life was to make money, without regard for the people he had to cheat to accomplish that. The author has taken a serious subject and added his own sense of humor. The Money, the Mob and Wall Street allows you to see the dark side of the financial industry while taking you on a sometimes funny but adrenaline-filled ride through a neighborhood few of us ever get to see: Wall Street.