• By Amelia Poovey
  • Posted Thursday, April 21, 2022

A True Crime Book Club

“Latent Prints: A True Crime Book Club” will meet every fourth Monday at noon. Members are encouraged to join with their lunch as we discuss our latest read or topic of interest. With the occasional guest speaker join in as we explore the darker side of humanity. Email Librarian Amelia Poovey at pooveyac@forsyth.cc to register and for more information.

We'll be meeting virtually using Zoom. You will be emailed a link and password to attend the Zoom meeting after you register. If you do not have a webcam or microphone, you may still attend.



July

  • Meeting: July 25 at noon

"Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World" by Bradley Hope

What it's about: In 2009, a chubby, mild-mannered graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business named Jho Low set in motion a fraud of unprecedented gall and magnitude--one that would come to symbolize the next great threat to the global financial system. Over a decade, Low, with the aid of Goldman Sachs and others, siphoned billions of dollars from an investment fund--right under the nose of global financial industry watchdogs. Low used the money to finance elections, purchase luxury real estate, throw champagne-drenched parties, and even to finance Hollywood films like The Wolf of Wall Street.

By early 2019, with his yacht and private jet reportedly seized by authorities and facing criminal charges in Malaysia and in the United States, Low had become an international fugitive, even as the U.S. Department of Justice continued its investigation.

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