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JOHN ILLIDGE - RSKY BZNS - Tales of a Fraud
J.J. Illidge was the newest stock-broking whiz kid, an ambitious young
man driven to make a fortune in the investment industry. Within five years he
was trading millions of dollars for clients who envied, admired and trusted him
implicitly as a generous friend and investment genius.
In reality, J.J. became one of the
industry's most outrageous embezzlers, a psychopath regularly pilfering
millions of dollars and spending his fortune on sociopathic sprees that left
clients, friends and family members emotionally shattered and financially
battered.
RSKY BZNS grips us with the Catch-Me-If-You-Can life of a
criminal mastermind from his troubled childhood at the hands of a bipolar,
abusive mother, through his riveting fraud binges and their devastating impact
on his many innocent victims who discovered, to their horror, that the man they
had welcomed into their lives as husband, father, close friend and trusted
advisor, was no more than a common thief in an Armani suit.
Written in page-turning literary
style by J.J.’s investigative journalist older brother, RSKY BZNS (J.J.’s
vanity license plate) puzzles us with the riddles of generational mental
illness: why a talented, intelligent man with looks, charm and personality
would break bad and sacrifice everything that was best about him to hurt even
those closest to him in order to fulfill the obsessions and compulsions that
drove him.
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