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Nevada's Gaming Control System in the Megaresort Age
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Jeff Burbank
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These seven precedent-setting case studies taken from the files of the Nevada Gaming Control Board and Commission illustrate vital issues addressed in the first decade of Las Vegas' megaresorts.
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Who is Bernie Madoff, and how did he pull off the biggest Ponzi scheme in history? These questions have fascinated people ever since the news broke about the respected New York financier who swindled his friends, relatives, and other investors out of $65 billion. Many have speculated about what must have happened, but no reporter has been able to get the full story - until now. Diana B. Henriques of the New York Times has written the definitive book on the man and his scheme.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The best of 3 madoff books
- De Angela willis en 03-18-13
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White House, Inc.
- How Donald Trump Turned the Presidency into a Business
- De: Dan Alexander
- Narrado por: Noah Michael Levine
- Duración: 6 h y 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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White House, Inc. is a newsmaking exposé that details President Trump’s efforts to make money off of politics, taking us inside his exclusive clubs, luxury hotels, overseas partnerships, commercial properties, and personal mansions. Alexander tracks hundreds of millions of dollars flowing freely between big businesses and President Trump. He explains, in plain language, how Trump tried to translate power into profit, from the 2016 campaign to the ramp-up to the 2020 campaign.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Required reading for all Americans
- De Gregor en 10-11-20
De: Dan Alexander
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The Quiet Don
- The Untold Story of Mafia Kingpin Russell Bufalino
- De: Matt Birkbeck
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 7 h y 46 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 195
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 172
Secretive - even reclusive - Russell Bufalino quietly built his organized crime empire in the decades between Prohibition and the Carter presidency. His reach extended far beyond the coal country of Scranton, Pennsylvania, and quaint Amish farms near Lancaster. Bufalino had a hand in global, national, and local politics of the largest American cities, many of its major industries, and controlled the powerful Teamsters Union. His influence also reached the highest levels of Pennsylvania government and halls of Congress, and his legacy left a culture of corruption that continues to this day.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Important But Edited By Lawyers?
- De Ted en 04-03-14
De: Matt Birkbeck
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Chain of Title
- How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street's Great Foreclosure Fraud
- De: David Dayen
- Narrado por: Kaleo Griffith
- Duración: 13 h y 51 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 573
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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.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Capital Corruption and Greed
- De Anthony Freyberg en 07-30-16
De: David Dayen
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Profiles in Corruption
- Abuse of Power by America’s Progressive Elite
- De: Peter Schweizer
- Narrado por: Charles Constant
- Duración: 7 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,003
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,696
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1,687
In Profiles in Corruption, Schweizer offers a deep-dive investigation into the private finances and secrets deals of some of America’s top political leaders. And, as usual, he doesn’t disappoint, with never-before-reported revelations that uncover corruption and abuse of power - all backed up by a mountain of corporate documents and legal filings from around the globe. Learn about how they are making sweetheart deals, generating side income, bending the law to their own benefits, using legislation to advance their own interests, and much more.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enlightening & Horrifying!!
- De Kay Lo en 01-22-20
De: Peter Schweizer
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Big Dirty Money
- The Shocking Injustice and Unseen Cost of White Collar Crime
- De: Jennifer Taub
- Narrado por: Eliza Foss
- Duración: 8 h y 49 m
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 63
How ordinary Americans suffer when the rich and powerful use tax doges or break the law to get richer and more powerful - and how we can stop it. There is an elite crime spree happening in America, and the privileged perps are getting away with it. Selling loose cigarettes on a city sidewalk can lead to a choke-hold arrest, and death, if you are not among the top one percent.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Loss of Glass-Steagal has led to Cheating
- De Rajiv en 05-23-21
De: Jennifer Taub
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All the Rave
- The Rise and Fall of Shawn Fanning’s Napster
- De: Joseph Menn
- Narrado por: John Rubinstein
- Duración: 13 h y 59 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 108
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 95
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 94
The definitive inside account of the file-sharing revolution that overthrew the music industry, All the Rave reveals the family betrayal, greed, and mismanagement that hijacked one the most fundamental innovations of the Internet era. Named one of the three best books of 2003 by Investigative Reporters and Editors Inc., All the Rave has been out of print until now and unavailable in most formats. Author and veteran technology journalist Joseph Menn also wrote 2010's Fatal System Error: The Hunt for the New Crime Lords who are Bringing Down the Internet.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Far-reaching Karma of Napster
- De Susie en 04-29-13
De: Joseph Menn
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Homewreckers
- How a Gang of Wall Street Kingpins, Hedge Fund Magnates, Crooked Banks, and Vulture Capitalists Suckered Millions out of Their Homes and Demolished the American Dream
- De: Aaron Glantz
- Narrado por: Paul Bellantoni
- Duración: 10 h y 10 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 195
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 166
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 165
In the spirit of Evicted, Bait and Switch, and The Big Short, a shocking, heart-wrenching investigation into America’s housing crisis and the modern-day robber barons who are making a fortune off the backs of the disenfranchised working and middle class - among them, Donald Trump and his inner circle.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing book - I hope it changes things and mobilizes people to take action!
- De WeaverDreams en 10-20-19
De: Aaron Glantz
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Boardwalk Empire
- The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City
- De: Nelson Johnson
- Narrado por: Joe Mantegna, Terence Winter (foreword)
- Duración: 11 h y 39 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 688
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 439
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From its inception, Atlantic City has always been a town dedicated to the fast buck, and this wide-reachinghistory offers a riveting account of its past 100 year, from the city's heyday as a Prohibition-era mecca of lawlessness to its rebirth as a legitimate casino resort in the modern era.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Unmasked History of Atlantic City
- De Steven Schuster en 08-07-10
De: Nelson Johnson
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Fooling Some of the People All of the Time
- A Long Short Story
- De: David Einhorn
- Narrado por: L. J. Ganser
- Duración: 13 h y 20 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 564
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 418
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 419
At its most basic level, Allied Capital is the story of Wall Street at its worst. But the story is much bigger than one little-known company. Fooling Some of the People All of the Time is an important call for effective law enforcement, free speech, and fair play.
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4 out of 5 stars
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where's the epilogue?
- De James Klein en 02-02-11
De: David Einhorn
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The Liar's Ball
- The Extraordinary Saga of How One Building Broke the World's Toughest Tycoons
- De: Vicky Ward
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 6 h y 35 m
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Harry Macklowe is one of the most notorious wheelers and dealers of the real-estate world, and The Liar's Ball is the story of the gamblers and thieves who populate his world. Watch as Harry makes the gutsy bid for midtown Manhattan's famous GM building and puts almost no money down, landing the billion-dollar transaction that made him the poster child for New York's real-estate royalty. Listen in on the secret conversations, back-door deals, and blackmail that put Macklowe and his cronies on top - and set them up for an enormous fall.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Excellent. Hope Biden Gets Covered Next
- De greenemann en 07-29-21
De: Vicky Ward
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The Deep State
- How an Army of Bureaucrats Protected Barack Obama and Is Working to Destroy the Trump Agenda
- De: Jason Chaffetz
- Narrado por: Jason Chaffetz
- Duración: 7 h y 36 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 1,443
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,275
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1,273
Former congressman and current Fox News contributor Jason Chaffetz explains how we ended up with a politicized federal bureaucracy that actively works to promote the Democratic Party's agenda and undermine Donald Trump.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent insight to the dirty dealings of the gov
- De Henwhisperer en 09-26-18
De: Jason Chaffetz
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Reefer Madness
- Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market
- De: Eric Schlosser
- Narrado por: Eric Schlosser
- Duración: 9 h y 20 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 396
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 105
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 105
In Reefer Madness, the best-selling author of Fast Food Nation investigates America's black market and its far-reaching influence on our society through three of its mainstays - pot, porn, and illegal immigrants.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Investigative Journalism
- De Boulderite en 06-25-03
De: Eric Schlosser
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Spooked
- The Trump Dossier, Black Cube, and the Rise of Private Spies
- De: Barry Meier
- Narrado por: Kerry Shale
- Duración: 8 h y 33 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 59
A Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist’s journey into a billon-dollar secret industry that is shaping our world - the booming business of private spying, operatives-for-hire retained by companies, political parties, and the powerful to dig up dirt on their enemies and, if need be, destroy them.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Was ok
- De markofu en 11-21-21
De: Barry Meier
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Kleptopia
- How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World
- De: Tom Burgis
- Narrado por: Tom Burgis
- Duración: 10 h y 58 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 308
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 270
In this real-life thriller packed with jaw-dropping revelations, award-winning investigative journalist Tom Burgis weaves together stories that reveal a terrifying global web of corruption. Glimpses of this shadowy world have emerged over the years. In Kleptopia, Burgis connects the dots. He follows the dirty money that is flooding the global economy, emboldening dictators, and poisoning democracies. From the Kremlin to Beijing, Harare to Riyadh, Paris to the White House, the trail shows something even more sinister: the thieves are uniting. And the human cost will be great.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Lazy Journalism in long narrative form
- De Jeremy en 02-14-21
De: Tom Burgis
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The Hellhound of Wall Street
- How Ferdinand Pecora's Investigation of the Great Crash Forever Changed American Finance
- De: Michael Perino
- Narrado por: George K. Wilson
- Duración: 14 h y 34 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
In The Hellhound of Wall Street, Michael Perino recounts in riveting detail the 1933 hearings that put Wall Street on trial for the Great Crash. Never before in American history had so many financial titans been called to account before the public, and they had come within a few weeks of emerging unscathed. By the time Ferdinand Pecora, a Sicilian immigrant and former New York prosecutor, took over as chief counsel, the investigation had dragged on ineffectively for nearly a year and was universally written off as dead....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Story
- De Lynn en 03-22-11
De: Michael Perino
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Detroit Resurrected
- To Bankruptcy and Back
- De: Nathan Bomey
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 9 h y 31 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 41
From thriving Motor City to the largest municipal bankruptcy in American history, Detroit has become the nation's cautionary tale. But what led to the fateful day of the filing, and how did the city survive this crisis? Journalist Nathan Bomey delivers the inside story of Detroit's decline and the people who fought to save it against impossible odds: Governor Rick Snyder, a self-proclaimed nerd; emergency manager Kevyn Orr, a lawyer with singular dedication; Judge Steven Rhodes, the city's conscience; and retirees who fought to ensure that Detroit kept its promises.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Outsiders Perspective
- De Carl en 02-07-17
De: Nathan Bomey