Leo Koretz Shames Ponzi

09/28/22 • 41 min

Who's Leo Koretz? He perpetuated one of the biggest financial schemes in history becoming one of the richest men in Chicago. But because it involved people with big titles and deep pockets they almost succeeded in burying this story forever out of embarrassment that they were duped. When it all came crashing down two decades later he killed himself with...chocolate?! Listen to this insane story of the man who made Ponzi look like an amateur.
References: the book "Empire of Deception" by Dean Jobb
#leokoretz #fraud #scam #crime #truecrime #Ponzi #pyramidscheme #interesting #history #stories

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Resources:
https://www.history101.com/disturbing-true-story-nicholas-barcla/
https://charleyproject.org/case/nicholas-patrick-barclay
https://www.salon.com/2012/07/17/he_fooled_a_missing_teenagers_family_or_did_he/
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/08/11/the-chameleon-annals-of-crime-david-grann
https://www.intouchweekly.com/posts/the-imposter-documentary-155882/

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