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Book Who Killed the Mob s Accountant

Download or read book Who Killed the Mob s Accountant written by Donald Richter and published by Austin Macauley. This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organized crime still lives in Chicago. Did the love of one mob boss kill his whole family? How did the FBI get involved, who is killing them off, why did the two major families unite? Is it brother against brother? Did one murder lead to everyone dying? Sometimes things don't go to plan. Find out how one's world could go down the toilet when you're working with people who don't know your plan.

Book Meyer Lansky

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles River Editors
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2018-09-12
  • ISBN : 9781727273724
  • Pages : 50 pages

Download or read book Meyer Lansky written by Charles River Editors and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-09-12 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "Don't worry, don't worry. Look at the Astors and the Vanderbilts, all those big society people. They were the worst thieves - and now look at them. It's just a matter of time." - Meyer Lansky One of America's most infamous mobsters, Meyer Lansky, was also one of the most mysterious, a perplexing, yet inexplicably intriguing individual with multiple reputations. To his admirers, he was in many ways the ultimate genius and survivor within the callous and cut-throat world of 20th century organized crime. Even in adulthood, Meyer was smaller than most, standing anywhere between 4'11" to 5'4," and weighing 136 pounds at his heaviest. He was not merely an intellectual - he was worldly and wise, one who often doled out advice akin to poetry to his children and grandchildren, his gravelly voice oddly soothing. At the same time, he had all the stealth and cunning of a sphinx, and while remarkably even-tempered, gangsters twice his size dared not cross him. To them, he was no more than a wildly ambitious, often misunderstood entrepreneur who trod upon the border between legality and lawlessness with all the mastery of a tightrope artist. He was, above all, the definition of humility, one whose "handshake was worth more than any contract," and a man who actively dodged the spotlight that doggedly tailed him until the end of his days. Conversely, most will quickly concede that while Lansky was an exceptionally clever criminal, he was a criminal all the same, and the crimes of this dark horse were unforgivable. Meyer was a fraudulent, tax-evading crook whose massive fortune was literally made off the bodies of countless victims. He was a silver-tongued fiend who preyed on the weak and impressionable, plying them with booze and drugs and feeding their gambling addictions. Lansky, whose most famous nickname remains the "Mob's Accountant," was one of the few gangsters of his era to die in old age, and he was never pinched for anything more serious than gambling. It's believed he made upwards of $20 million in his time as a mobster, but some still claim he was never the mogul the media painted him out to be. Instead, they assert that he was an expendable middleman, and that he was an overzealous rogue who squandered away whatever fortune he had. Meyer Lansky: The Infamous Life and Legacy of the Mob's Accountant profiles the controversial life of one of organized crime's most notorious figures. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about Meyer Lansky like never before.

Book Overdose or Murder   Dr Marrow

Download or read book Overdose or Murder Dr Marrow written by Donald Richter and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-12-08 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Overdose or Murder, a seasoned spy, long retired, is abruptly pulled back into the shadows. His former superior needs a discreet favor, one that treads the fine line between murder and suicide. As he delves into the mystery, every clue raises more questions. Who gains from the death? What drove the victim to such a desperate act? Was it a crime of passion, envy, or sheer malice? Beneath the surface, secrets lurk, waiting to be unveiled. In the follow-up tale, Dr. Marrow, our erstwhile spy finds himself amidst an unlikely team of misfits, tasked with rectifying a grave error. As they dig deeper, they uncover a government project teetering on the edge of groundbreaking innovation. Is it the melding of genes or the birth of advanced artificial intelligence? The stakes skyrocket when they stumble upon a chilling revelation: the potential creation of super soldiers and gargantuan scorpions. The race against time begins, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance.

Book Who Killed Creativity

Download or read book Who Killed Creativity written by Andrew Grant and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential guide to building a culture of creativity and innovation throughout an organization Your help is needed to crack an unsolved crime: creative thinking is critical for future fulfillment and survival, and yet it is now declining at an alarming rate. In this original mystery-style approach, you will have the opportunity to match your knowledge against that of the latest brain researchers, psychologists, and sociologists as you are taken on a humorous and often startling journey to discover why creativity is dying an untimely death. The '7 Rescue Strategies' then provide proven innovation solutions, from personal issues through to organizational imperatives. Authors Andrew and Gaia Grant have travelled the world for more than 25 years working with more than 20,000 international keynote and workshop participants in more than 30 countries at all levels. With a fascinating forensic approach, revealing carefully researched facts and anecdotal insights, this is a compelling modern tale. And there is a final twist that will leave you wondering.... Can we really live happily ever after?

Book Summary of Killing the Mob

Download or read book Summary of Killing the Mob written by Alexander Cooper and published by BookSummaryGr. This book was released on 2021-07-09 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summary of Killing the Mob In Killing the Mob, Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard recount the history of organized crime in the United States and describe the concerted efforts that various government agencies and officials took to bring key figures in the criminal underworld to book. Killing the Mob is divided into three parts bookended by a prologue and postscript. The first part, titled “The Gunners,” covers the exploits of the infamous serial robbers of the 1930s, including John Dillinger, “Pretty Boy” Floyd, and Bonnie and Clyde, and the brutal violence that came to define that decade. The second part, “The Corruptors,” traces the rise of the Italian-American Mafia, alternately known as the Mob, Syndicate, or Cosa Nostra, from the time it helped change the course of the Second World War in 1943 to the time it infiltrated John F. Kennedy’s presidential campaign in 1960. The last part, “The Subversives,” documents the ways the Mob invaded every facet of American life— from movies and music to labor unions and presidential elections— and relates the investigations, the cunning, and the betrayal that eventually crippled much of its influence and activity in the mid-1980s. Although the scope of Killing the Mob is the period between the 1930s and mid-80s, O’Reilly and Dugard go back and forth in time to place key events in context. They chronicle the arrival of Italian immigrants in New York City in the early 1900s, Prohibition in 1920, and the Great Depression that started in 1929 to explain how organized crime was birthed and how it spread across the country. In the postscript, the authors narrate what happened to the last of the old-school mobsters and the crime families they led. Here is a Preview of What You Will Get: ⁃ A Full Book Summary ⁃ An Analysis ⁃ Fun quizzes ⁃ Quiz Answers ⁃ Etc Get a copy of this summary and learn about the book.

Book Secrets of the Mob The Men and Their Methods

Download or read book Secrets of the Mob The Men and Their Methods written by Jay Robert Baer and published by Mobsecrets. This book was released on 2020-12-31 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secrets of the Mob is a unique look at four of the most famous gangsters in US history. You will explore the personal lives of four gangsters, Meyer Lansky, Al Capone, John Gotti, and Paul Castellano. Many books were written about their criminal lives and law enforcements efforts to put them behind bars. Author Jay Baer felt it was time to look at their lives differently. In Secrets of the Mob, you will learn the secrets of how these men dealt with their personal and business lives. For example: How did John Gotti run his family? Who was Meyer Lansky’s mentor and how much was Meyer worth? What did Al Capone wear, how much did his wardrobe cost, and who was his mentor? What was Paul Castellano's business secrets? Secrets of the Mob has much more information that you have never known until now. Learn the secrets today.

Book Violence  Statistics  and the Politics of Accounting for the Dead

Download or read book Violence Statistics and the Politics of Accounting for the Dead written by Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-11 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the methodological problems of accounting for the dead in armed conflicts as well as how the process itself is open to manipulation and controversy. Inspired by the work of the International Practitioner Network of casualty recording organizations, the book features thematic analysis, case studies and historical discussion on the use of the body count towards political, humanitarian and military ends. The book begins with a strategic analysis of the body count that introduces a general discussion on the measurement of war violence; its treatment by the media, humanitarian organizations, governments and the military; and its legal and political implications. It then examines the accounting for civilian war casualties in past and future conflicts, investigates the way the International Committee of the Red Cross has dealt with the issue of missing persons and the identification of dead bodies in armed conflicts and explores the role of statistics in aid policy debates, especially in regards to humanitarian workers. Next, the book details the field of casualty recording as practiced by civil society organizations, with insights from a study of 40 practitioners. It also features narrative case studies that detail the ways human losses were documented during recent conflicts in Northeastern India (2006-2009) and Croatia (1991-1995). In addition, one case study looks at the usefulness of casualty recording in engaging policymakers on the impacts of particular technologies of violence. This book offers an insightful investigation into violence, statistics and the politics of accounting for the dead. It will appeal to a broad audience of policy-makers, human rights activists, humanitarian practitioners as well as academics.

Book The Certified Public Accountant

Download or read book The Certified Public Accountant written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Forgotten Dead

    Book Details:
  • Author : William D. Carrigan
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2013-04-19
  • ISBN : 0199717702
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book Forgotten Dead written by William D. Carrigan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-19 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mob violence in the United States is usually associated with the southern lynch mobs who terrorized African Americans during the Jim Crow era. In Forgotten Dead, William D. Carrigan and Clive Webb uncover a comparatively neglected chapter in the story of American racial violence, the lynching of persons of Mexican origin or descent. Over eight decades lynch mobs murdered hundreds of Mexicans, mostly in the American Southwest. Racial prejudice, a lack of respect for local courts, and economic competition all fueled the actions of the mob. Sometimes ordinary citizens committed these acts because of the alleged failure of the criminal justice system; other times the culprits were law enforcement officers themselves. Violence also occurred against the backdrop of continuing tensions along the border between the United States and Mexico aggravated by criminal raids, military escalation, and political revolution. Based on Spanish and English archival documents from both sides of the border, Forgotten Dead explores through detailed case studies the characteristics and causes of mob violence against Mexicans across time and place. It also relates the numerous acts of resistance by Mexicans, including armed self-defense, crusading journalism, and lobbying by diplomats who pressured the United States to honor its rhetorical commitment to democracy. Finally, it contains the first-ever inventory of Mexican victims of mob violence in the United States. Carrigan and Webb assess how Mexican lynching victims came in the minds of many Americans to be the "forgotten dead" and provide a timely account of Latinos' historical struggle for recognition of civil and human rights.

Book Forensic Accounting and Fraud Examination

Download or read book Forensic Accounting and Fraud Examination written by Mary-Jo Kranacher and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-06-08 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forensic Accounting provides comprehensive coverage of fraud detection and deterrence and includes the broader educational material of the forensic accounting field with all the necessary accompaniments. The text follows the model curriculum for education in fraud and forensic funded by the U.S. national Institute of Justice and developed by a Technical Working Group of experts in the field. The text serves as a comprehensive and authoritative resource for teaching forensic accounting concepts and procedures that is also and appropriate and pedagogically ready for class room use. This easy to read, comprehensive textbook includes case study examples to clearly explain technical concepts and bring the material to life.

Book Critical Histories of Accounting

Download or read book Critical Histories of Accounting written by Richard K. Fleischman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The critical tradition in accounting historiography has come to occupy a prominent place in the discipline's academic scholarship. Some critical literature has confronted the responsibility of accounting and accountants in precipitating contemporary crises, such as the audit failures that spawned Sarbanes-Oxley and the world-wide recession. Certain contemporary issues have long histories, such as the difficulties encountered by women to break the glass ceiling in public accounting, and the suffering of indigenous peoples under the imperialistic yoke. Other episodes in accounting's long history are seemingly more divorced from the present, but in reality they all have contemporary significance. Slavery in the New World, for example, although abolished more than a century ago, is still rampant in parts of the world, albeit less formally. Critical accounting historians feel it a duty to harken to the "suppressed voices" of the past, those groups of people who had no access to an accounting record - women, persons of color, indigenous populations, alienated proletarians, victims of governmental incompetence and graft, and many voiceless others. Critical Histories of Accounting: Sinister Inscriptions in the Modern Era draws on the foremost work in this developing literature, both that authored by the co-editors of this volume, and that written by others. Editors Richard K. Fleischman, Warwick N. Funnell, and Steve Walker have written extensively about "the dark side of accounting," gauging the complicity of those performing accounting functions in episodes in human history that are at worst evil and at best reprehensible. The editors have also hand-selected a series of historical and contemporary episodes that have been critically investigated by the wider accounting history community, preceded by a thorough introduction.

Book The Accountant

Download or read book The Accountant written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Accounting for Evil

    Book Details:
  • Author : Parker & Parker
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2004-02-19
  • ISBN : 1462834744
  • Pages : 251 pages

Download or read book Accounting for Evil written by Parker & Parker and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2004-02-19 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lost race of humans is discovered on a planet called Wanderer, and joy spreads throughout the Green Realm. Sadly, the joy is short-lived. "They're mad. They're all mad," reports one of the planet surveyors. Insane, yes, so it seems the people, the wildlife, even the planet. Suddenly, a surveyor is strangled. Then another surveyor is murdered and special evidence links the killings. Tempers fray, fingers are pointed, and all the residents look over their shoulders in fear. Is the planet safe for the newcomers? Is it safe for anyone? Ardra Wythian, a young PKF officer, and her companionbot, Skrif, are sent to this world to find answers. They hope for quick results, but soon realize no traditional explanation will solve the riddle of Wanderer. Then Ardra discovers she's next on the hit list.

Book Accounting for Murder

    Book Details:
  • Author : Emma Lathen
  • Publisher : SIMPLY MEDIA
  • Release : 2016-08-02
  • ISBN : 1614964637
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Accounting for Murder written by Emma Lathen and published by SIMPLY MEDIA. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ePub eBook 1st Edition. Accounting for Murder. Simply Media. 3rd of 37 Emma Lathen Best Sellers. Features John Putnam Thatcher, SVP of the Sloan Guaranty Trust, who gets to the bottom of things by cutting through various business goings on, a famous accountant who swooped down on a company to examine the books, dissident shareholders, community groups, and others to examine the financial motives in order to nail the killer. A humorous romp for those who like humor and good writing in their mysteries. Called the American Agatha Christie and Nero Wolfe with Portfolio by the New York Times.

Book The Leatherneck

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1926
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 788 pages

Download or read book The Leatherneck written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Accountant Student and Accountants  Journal

Download or read book Accountant Student and Accountants Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fish Kills Report

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Water Planning and Standards
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1972
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 108 pages

Download or read book Fish Kills Report written by United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Water Planning and Standards and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: