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03332aam a2200385 i 4500 001 26CC209E02C911EFB04B503F57ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240425010042 008 200205t20192019nyuaf 000 0deng 010 $a 2019300472 020 $a 9780316490672 020 $a 0316490679 020 $a 031643647X 020 $a 9780316436472 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d DLC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a HV6692 .L68 $b H66 2019 082 00 $a 364.16/3092 $2 23 100 1 $a Hope, Bradley, $e author. 245 10 $a Billion Dollar Whale: $b The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, And The World / $c Tom Wright & Bradley Hope. 250 $a First trade paperback edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Hachette Books, $c 2019. 300 $a xix, 391 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations (some color) ; $c 21 cm 500 $a "Includes a new epilogue"--Cover. 520 $a Two Pulitzer-finalist Wall Street Journal reporters document the true story of how a young social climber orchestrated one of history's biggest financial heists, exposing the secret nexus of elite wealth, banking, Hollywood and politics. 75,000 first printing. 520 $a "What does it take to steal $5 billion? In 2009, with the dust yet to settle on the financial crisis, a mild-mannered Wharton grad set in motion a fraud of unprecedented gall and magnitude--one that would come to symbolize the next great threat to the global financial system. His name is Jho Low, a man whose behavior was so preposterous he might seem made up. If Jho Low appeared shy on the surface, behind the scenes he was a big-talking, social-climbing huckster. Barely out of college, Low persuaded the prime minister of Malaysia, Najib Razak, to create an investment fund, known as 1MDB. Directing it from the shadows, Low raised more than $10 billion with the aid of Goldman Sachs and others, and over the next half decade siphoned off billions--money used to finance elections; to purchase luxury real estate; to produce Hollywood films, including The Wolf of Wall Street; and to throw champagne-drenched parties around the world. Low's largesse put him at the center of a world that included celebrities like Leonardo DiCaprio and Jamie Foxx, supermodels like Miranda Kerr, and even a major donor to President Obama. More staggering still, no one seemed to notice--not the global banks, who seemingly turned a blind eye to shady transfers of hundreds of millions of dollars, nor the official financial-system watchdogs. Tom Wright and Bradley Hope, award-winning Wall Street Journal reporters, have broken dozens of stories about the 1MDB affair. Now, for the first time, they reveal the complete inside story of one of the biggest financial heists in history. Billion Dollar Whale will join the ranks of Liar's Poker and Den of Thieves as a classic, harrowing parable of the financial world, hubris, and greed."--Jacket. 600 10 $a Low, Jho, $d 1981- 650 0 $a Swindlers and swindling $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Fraud $z United States. 651 0 $a Wall Street (New York, N.Y.) 650 $a TRUE CRIME 700 1 $a Wright, Tom $c (Wall Street Journal reporter), $e author. 941 $a 1 952 $l TZPC572 $d 20240425010158.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=26CC209E02C911EFB04B503F57ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search