THE LAUNDRYMEN
Inside The World's Third Largest Business
The world is awash with dirty money. The bulk of it coming from corporate corruption, public corruption and illicit drugs.
Who's laundering it?
As Jeffrey Robinson proves in this blistering and up-to-the-minute expose, they are not the gun-toting Mafiosi of cliche; they are bankers, lawyers, accountants and money managers - from Wall Street to Main Street – certified professionals who use sophisticated systems of layering, loopholes in banking laws, and professional privilege to do their dirty work.
Corrupting everyone and everything it touches, laundered money gradually seeps into the foundations of the world's financial institutions, ready to fuel an ever-widening cycle of violence.
The Laundrymen gets to the root of the problem and has become the definitive book on the subject.
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER THAT INTRODUCED THE WORLD TO MONEY LAUNDERING
USA Today: "Jeffrey Robinson has written what nearly amounts to a textbook on the transformation of ill-gotten gains...”
The Independent: “An enjoyable blast at the lax regulations that add softener to the world’s money-washing machine.”
Business Week: “...entertaining and comprehensive... in painting a clear picture of one of the world's sleaziest industries, Robinson has put money laundering on display... An indictment of governments and banks."
Financial Times: "Buy this book instantly."
Daily Mail: “An eye opening expose.”
The Laundrymen is one of those. There are dozens of stories attached to it. Like how the UK version had a real dollar bill on the cover and dozens of copies were stolen out of the London Book Fair for the cover. Like how it changed the money laundering laws in a handful of countries. And how it wound up on a television newscast when the crew filmed some cops raiding a lawyer’s office and carefully placed the book at the top of the evidence bag. And how a defendant in on a money laundering case told the judge the crime wasn't her fault, it was mine because I'd explained to her how to commit it.
But perhaps the best story surrounding The Laundrymen is how the Dutch version, De Wit Wasser was plagiarized by the best known sleazebag conman in Holland. Granted, imitation may well be the sincerest form of flattery, but the line definitely gets drawn when someone scans in the entire text, and tries to pass it off as his own work.
That story, "Someone Stole My Book," details how I went to Holland to take him on, whipped his ass in court and wound up getting paid in counterfeit money.
The Philadelphia Inquirer: “Oliver Stone should read this book. The Laundrymen has all the ingredients needed for a great crime-horror movie. More to the point, it should be ready by anyone who wants to learn why the world is in such sorry shape.... splendidly entertaining and educational...”
Times of London: "Gripping read... fact outdoes fiction."
Time Magazine: "Money laundering is a runaway global industry."Write your text here...
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