The book follows a down-and-out hedge fund veteran who lands at Leeser Capital, a shady fund run by a man "who made Enron's execs look like saints".
Mr. Simon conceded that his reported photographic evidence was "now in question" and called on state officials and the news media to investigate Mr. Davis's "aggressive and shady fund-raising practices".
The campaign was the backdrop to the burglary at the Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate Hotel in Washington and to the Nixon organization's shady fund-raising practices and sabotage operations, later known as "dirty tricks," which were not disclosed until after the election.
Nevertheless, Science News's editor, veteran science journalist Jia Hepeng, promises that his magazine will have an edge as his team of young journalists digs into shoddy science and shady funding practices.
The book is a sequel to Mr. Dorgan and Mr. Hagberg's first energy thriller, "Blowout," in which Iran and Venezuela link up with shady hedge-fund types to destroy a supersecret project that uses microbes to turn North Dakota coal into limitless, low-pollution electricity.
Yet the agents with the FBI's behavioral group, some of whom also are active in developing profiles of terrorists and criminals who prey on children, believe they can develop profiling strategies that will help undercover agents ferret out corrupt corporate titans, shady hedge fund traders and other Wall Street con artists.
It is the job of the SEC, not an official of one state government, to clean up mutual funds' shady practices.Rise and shineA few new rules may be required.
But with a government now under Prince Albert, who acceded to the throne in 2005, keen to present itself as financially responsible rather than overseeing, in Somerset Maugham's unbeatable phrase, "a sunny place for shady people", state funds were not made available in the quantities required for modern top-flight football.
Even the reason he's in prison is fairly honorable: Lang, a systems engineer was convicted for electronically burgling a shady conglomerate and returning funds to people who had been ripped off.
The usual suspects are present: grotesque executive compensation, shady accounting gimmickry, outrageous fund fees and the folly of short-term speculation.
While interesting to see, FEEX doesn't break down how much of those fees are for managing the fund or shady advisors pocketing my gains.
