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162) Code 46
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
In the near future, privileged classes live and work "Inside" cities, while non-citizens scratch out a miserable existence "Outside" in a vast desert. People cannot leave their designated zones without special visas known as "papelles." When fraudulent papelles surface, Seattle fraud investigator William Geld travels to Shanghai to ferret out the culprit and meets Maria Gonzalez ... a woman with whom he has a passionate affair, but breaks one of society's...
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
A documentary profiling Marc Dreier, a once-prominent Manhattan attorney who shamed his profession by orchestrating a massive fraud scheme at his clients' expense that netted over 700 million dollars from hedge funds. Viewers will be taken into Dreier's house arrest in an upper East Side penthouse, where he remained until he was sentenced. Viewers will also hear Dreier's first-hand account of the scheme, and of his own unraveling.
165) Quiz show
Pub. Date
1994.
Description
Fame and fortune become a hotbed of scandal when a Washington investigator uncovers corruption beneath the TV's hottest quiz show's glittering facade. The scandal implicates both the wildly popular champion and the disgruntled ex-champ.
166) To catch a thief
Series
Description
A retired American jewel thief living on the French Riviera seeks to prove his innocence by exposing the burglar who has been imitating his technique.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"In 2015, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup "unicorn" promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would make blood tests significantly faster and easier. Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos sold shares in a fundraising round that valued the company at $9 billion, putting Holmes's worth at an estimated $4.5...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Acclaimed director Steve James tells the saga of the Chinese immigrant Sung family, owners of Abacus Federal Savings of Chinatown, New York. Accused of mortgage fraud by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., Abacus becomes the only bank prosecuted after the 2008 financial crisis. The indictment and subsequent trial forces the Sung family to defend themselves, and their bank's legacy in the Chinatown community, over the course of a five-year...
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Domestic disturbance: A father discovers that his son's new stepfather is not who he pretends to be -- Face/off: Government agent Sean Archer, whose son was killed in an assassination attempt by Castor Troy, years later assumes Castor's face in order to bring down Troy's terrorist group, while Castor uses the same technique to assume Archer's identity -- The general's daughter: A military investigator is determined to uncover the truth behind a...