Author: Mick Hamer
Publisher: eBook Partnership
ISBN: 1912317281
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
On a warm April morning in 1906 a crowd of expectant correspondents from London's leading newspapers gathered at the Hotel Cecil in the Strand to view the new wonder of the age - the electrobus.This clean, green machine was gearing up to take on the noisy, polluting petrol vehicle, which was just starting to replace the horse-drawn omnibus and surely had the potential to be a game changer in terms of what it would mean to Londoners and other city-dwellers who were already choking on petrol fumes.Disastrously though, the London Electrobus Company was in the grip of a gang of greedy and fraudulent financiers, who systematically conned shareholders, looted the company's coffers and drove the promise of the electrobus into the ground.Rammed with fascinating characters and vividly capturing the Edwardian era, A Most Deliberate Swindle uncovers one of the biggest frauds in history and reveals why a century later this historic scam has left us all gasping for breath.
Most Deliberate Swindle
Author: Mick Hamer
Publisher: eBook Partnership
ISBN: 1912317281
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
On a warm April morning in 1906 a crowd of expectant correspondents from London's leading newspapers gathered at the Hotel Cecil in the Strand to view the new wonder of the age - the electrobus.This clean, green machine was gearing up to take on the noisy, polluting petrol vehicle, which was just starting to replace the horse-drawn omnibus and surely had the potential to be a game changer in terms of what it would mean to Londoners and other city-dwellers who were already choking on petrol fumes.Disastrously though, the London Electrobus Company was in the grip of a gang of greedy and fraudulent financiers, who systematically conned shareholders, looted the company's coffers and drove the promise of the electrobus into the ground.Rammed with fascinating characters and vividly capturing the Edwardian era, A Most Deliberate Swindle uncovers one of the biggest frauds in history and reveals why a century later this historic scam has left us all gasping for breath.
Publisher: eBook Partnership
ISBN: 1912317281
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
On a warm April morning in 1906 a crowd of expectant correspondents from London's leading newspapers gathered at the Hotel Cecil in the Strand to view the new wonder of the age - the electrobus.This clean, green machine was gearing up to take on the noisy, polluting petrol vehicle, which was just starting to replace the horse-drawn omnibus and surely had the potential to be a game changer in terms of what it would mean to Londoners and other city-dwellers who were already choking on petrol fumes.Disastrously though, the London Electrobus Company was in the grip of a gang of greedy and fraudulent financiers, who systematically conned shareholders, looted the company's coffers and drove the promise of the electrobus into the ground.Rammed with fascinating characters and vividly capturing the Edwardian era, A Most Deliberate Swindle uncovers one of the biggest frauds in history and reveals why a century later this historic scam has left us all gasping for breath.
Deliberate Indifference
Author: Howard Swindle
Publisher: Viking Adult
ISBN: 9780670839469
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Award-winning investigative journalist tells a true story that resembles a cross between the plot of Mississippi Burning and a frontline report from Daryl Gates's L.A. With a meticulous attention to detail, Howard Swindle extends his inquiry beyond Garner's murder to probe the poisoned heart of American racial injustice. Deliberate Indifference is a profoundly disturbing investigation of sanctioned murder and a miscarriage of justice that brings home hard truths about.
Publisher: Viking Adult
ISBN: 9780670839469
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Award-winning investigative journalist tells a true story that resembles a cross between the plot of Mississippi Burning and a frontline report from Daryl Gates's L.A. With a meticulous attention to detail, Howard Swindle extends his inquiry beyond Garner's murder to probe the poisoned heart of American racial injustice. Deliberate Indifference is a profoundly disturbing investigation of sanctioned murder and a miscarriage of justice that brings home hard truths about.
House of Commons Debates, Official Report
Author: Canada. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher:
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1894
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1894
Book Description
The Eclectic Magazine
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
The Eclectic Magazine
Author: John Holmes Agnew
Publisher:
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
Official Report of Debates, House of Commons
Author: Canada. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher:
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1896
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1896
Book Description
Official Reports of the Debates of the House of Commons of the Dominion of Canada
Author: Canada. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher:
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1898
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1898
Book Description
California. Court of Appeal (2nd Appellate District). Records and Briefs
Author: California (State).
Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Chain of Title
Author: David Dayen
Publisher: New Press, The
ISBN: 1620971593
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
In the depths of the Great Recession, a cancer nurse, a car dealership worker, and an insurance fraud specialist helped uncover the largest consumer crime in American history—a scandal that implicated dozens of major executives on Wall Street. They called it foreclosure fraud: millions of families were kicked out of their homes based on false evidence by mortgage companies that had no legal right to foreclose. Lisa Epstein, Michael Redman, and Lynn Szymoniak did not work in government or law enforcement. They had no history of anticorporate activism. Instead they were all foreclosure victims, and while struggling with their shame and isolation they committed a revolutionary act: closely reading their mortgage documents, discovering the deceit behind them, and building a movement to expose it. Fiscal Times columnist David Dayen recounts how these ordinary Floridians challenged the most powerful institutions in America armed only with the truth—and for a brief moment they brought the corrupt financial industry to its knees.
Publisher: New Press, The
ISBN: 1620971593
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
In the depths of the Great Recession, a cancer nurse, a car dealership worker, and an insurance fraud specialist helped uncover the largest consumer crime in American history—a scandal that implicated dozens of major executives on Wall Street. They called it foreclosure fraud: millions of families were kicked out of their homes based on false evidence by mortgage companies that had no legal right to foreclose. Lisa Epstein, Michael Redman, and Lynn Szymoniak did not work in government or law enforcement. They had no history of anticorporate activism. Instead they were all foreclosure victims, and while struggling with their shame and isolation they committed a revolutionary act: closely reading their mortgage documents, discovering the deceit behind them, and building a movement to expose it. Fiscal Times columnist David Dayen recounts how these ordinary Floridians challenged the most powerful institutions in America armed only with the truth—and for a brief moment they brought the corrupt financial industry to its knees.