The Salad Oil King: An American Tale of Greed Gone Mad

by M.G. Crisci

Book Overview

High-School-Dropout Masterminds a $14 B White-Collar Scam.

Bespectacled Fonso Gravenese was just six when he ran his first scam in 1915--winning quarters from his neighborhood buddies by rubbing olive on his yo-yo strings to make it spin faster.

From there, the scams got bigger, and his appetite unquenchable. By the time Fonso was 50, he had built a $500 million personal fortune by scamming federally-funded School...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0991477391
• ISBN13: 9780991477395
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Orca Publishing Company
• Length: 412 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"