Last week Acrimoney posted an article entitled, Part I: The Ponzi Wives Poll. We presented the following case. A woman left her husband ten years ago. She waited until 2007 to sue for divorce. As their battle played out in court, a second front emerged. In 2009 the...
At Acrimoney, we love underdogs. We don’t care where their stories originate, the world of private wealth management or elsewhere. Glasses off, sleeves rolled up, ready to mix it up—we are drawn inexorably to people who plow through life trying to do the right...
At Acrimoney, we love underdogs. We don’t care where their stories originate, the world of private wealth management or elsewhere. Glasses off, sleeves rolled up, ready to mix it up—we are drawn inexorably to people who plow through life trying to do the right...
Chewy cookies are the best. Archway, the master for years, made great oatmeal cookies. But last October the company declared bankruptcy. And over the weekend, The New York Times exposed the accounting shenanigans that preceded its collapse. The article is unsettling...
The results of Acrimoney’s Ruth Madoff poll are crystal clear. Ninety-four percent of our voters believe she helped orchestrate his $65 billion fraud. And 34 percent are ready to throw her in jail. Full disclosure: our methodology is not scientific. Forget the...
I grew up amid the low-country marshes of South Carolina. Mosquitos, fiddler crabs, and tidal creeks everywhere. There was this thing we called “gigging.” We used tridents to spear bottom feeders in the swampy waters. I didn’t like stabbing flounder...
The New York Times describes my novels as “money porn,” “a red-hot franchise,” and “glittery thrillers about fiscal malfeasance.” Through fiction I explore the dark side of money and the motivations of those who have it, want more, and will steamroll anybody who gets in their way.
The New York Times describes my novels as “money porn,” “a red-hot franchise,” and “glittery thrillers about fiscal malfeasance.” Through fiction I explore the dark side of money and the motivations of those who have it, want more, and will steamroll anybody who gets in their way.