Nothing But Money, Greg B. Smith
Nothing But Money, Greg B. Smith
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Nothing But Money
How the Mob Infiltrated Wall Street

Author: Greg B. Smith

Narrator: Peter Berkrot

Unabridged: 9 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/16/2018

Synopsis

Forced out of the work-hard, play-hard world of Wall Street following the Crash of ’87, financial analyst Cary Cimino was determined to maintain his lifestyle of luxury and ease. Under the guidance of dubious businessman Jeffrey Pokross, Cimino embarked on an illegitimate underground career as a “financial adviser” to naïve investors. Cimino’s small-time operation soon spiraled into a large-scale crime ring when he and Pokross were reunited and met with Mafia wiseguy Robert Lino. Together, and with the support of organized crime families, the three men devised a high-risk, high-return scheme to extort millions of dollars from a bevy of unsuspecting stockbrokers and investors—all in the name of the Mob.This is the uncut, untold story of one of the most elaborate conspiracies to rock Wall Street’s rigid foundation—a story centered around the Mafia, murder, and a load of money.

About Greg B. Smith

Greg B. Smith, reporter for New York’s Daily News, covers the federal courts in Brooklyn and Manhattan that serve as Ground Zero in the battle to end mafia influence in America. An investigative reporter for nearly twenty years, Smith has written for The Boston Globe, The San Francisco Examiner, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and other newspapers around the country. He’s also a frequent guest on TV and radio discussing everything from racketeering to the Latin Kings street gang to world terrorist organizations. Mr. Smith lives with his wife and two boys in Brooklyn, New York.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Walt on January 26, 2023

Smith offers a detailed look at pump and dump penny stocks. The connection to the mob is a bit of a stretch. They were not the guys behind the racket. The book focuses on what are called associates. Cary Cimino, Jeffrey Pokross, and Francis Warrington III are not fun, exciting, or scary like Al Capo......more

Goodreads review by Spurnlad on September 19, 2019

Well-written account of Mob involvement in Wall Street......more

Goodreads review by Thomas on August 12, 2010

I don't really know why I so disliked this book. I liked the same author's Made Men rather well, so I'm not sure what was missing in this one. There was sort of no central character, or even a small set of characters; it was all over the place. A zillion characters, a zillion events I didn't really......more

Goodreads review by Tom on January 04, 2017

This is not really "How the Mob Infiltrated Wall Street". Page 187 states how Mafia-ran pump and dump boiler rooms were already established: "Pump and dump had actually been around since the 1980s, when a handful of gangsters made some money hyping bogus stock." What makes this interesting, beside t......more

Goodreads review by Lee on July 19, 2014

This book tells of the Mob infiltration and manipulation of Wall Street boiler rooms. It was okay at best, it seemed disjointed with the author going back and forth from telling about the various brokers involved in the scams to the wiseguys running it. It was kind of all over the place without a co......more

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