Authors: Andrew Spencer
ISBN-13: 9781883283698, ISBN-10: 1883283698
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Brick Tower Books
Date Published: October 2009
Edition: (Non-applicable)
This is a true story of personal greed and downfall, corporate greed fueled with economic and social treachery, shareholder waste and discrimination at AIG, 70 Pine Street in the heart of the financial district. This address is known as the AIG Tower, hence the title Tower of Thieves. The central character is a man with a wife, a family, who has cheated his way to the top by doing good. He is responsible for leading a 60 billion dollar organization with over 40,000 employees worldwide at one of the largest companies in the world. What he sees and what he does validates what unchecked power on Wall Street will do to a man and what it has done to an entire company and country. The events at AIG lead right to the CEO and Senior Vice Chairman and how our guy fights an entire corrupt organization and how he became one of those he despised.
Act I
1 Who Is John Falcetta? 34
2 Mistaken Identity 73
Act II
3 An Open Checkbook 82
4 Good Soldiers, Bad Orders 101
5 We Stopped Doing That Years Ago 116
6 Covering Up Is Hard To Do 137
Act III
7 Black and White and Sometimes Grey 154
8 What the Shareholders Don't Know Won't Hurt Them 162
Act IV
9 "The Jig's Up" 185
10 Merry Christmas 206