Cleaning Up: An Inside Story of Corporate Crime from a One-Time Wall Street Con Artist »

Before he was even old enough to drink, he had bank accounts, a Ferrari, a mansion, a multi-million dollar corporation, and a desperate little secret . . . it was all a lie. Most of us can't imagine life getting much worse than it got for Barry Minkow, the one-time Wall Street wiz kid who catapulted his company to stardom and success only to see it exposed as a $300-million fraud. Most of us can't imagine spending more than seven years in federal prison and coming out owing victims $26 million. Most of us can't imagine our careers changing from FBI target to FBI trainer, from CEO to senior pastor, from con man to con catcher. Or can we? We've all slipped up. We've all failed. Cleaning Up is Barry Minkow's comeback story-a powerful a tale of redemption and inspiration, of second chances and setting things right. More than a decade from defrauding investors, today, as cofounder of the Fraud Discovery Institute, he's uncovered over a billion dollars worth of investment scams.

Contents

Prologue....................v
1. One and Done....................1
Rise and Fall 2. Wiz Kid....................25
3. Unleashed....................45
4. Fresh Cash....................55
5. Ron Returns....................69
6. Financial Frenzy....................83
7. Financial Fix....................93
8. Bad Serve....................103
9. Into the Abyss....................115
10. End of the Road....................125
Second Chance 11. Starting with an "A"....................141
12. Choices....................159
13. Reality Checks Bounce....................173
14. Born Again Until You're Out Again....................191
15. Living in a Fishbowl....................207
16. Failure, Again....................223
17. The Perfect Fraud Storm....................237
18. The Cure, Part One....................249
19. The Cure, Part Two....................263
20. The Greed Blindfoldd....................277
21. The Past Rides Again....................295
22. Matches....................309