Airing Our Dirty Laundry

The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum

The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss

By: Margalit Fox
Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

America’s first great organized-crime lord was a lady—a nice Jewish mother named Mrs. Mandelbaum.

“A tour de force . . . With a pickpocket’s finesse, Margalit Fox lures us into the criminal underworld of Gilded Age New York.”—Liza Mundy, author of The Sisterhood

A PARADE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

In 1850, an impoverished twenty-five-year-old named... Read more

Rinsed

From Cartels to Crypto: How the Tech Industry Washes Money for the World's Deadliest Crooks

By: Geoff White
Narrated by: Geoff White
Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Brought to you by Penguin.

There's an old saying: 'a rising tide lifts all boats'.

It's normally couched in positive terms; that overall economic improvement will benefit everyone. In the case of hi-tech money laundering, however, it offers a dark vision of the future. The better these launderers become at their work, the more crime of all types... Read more

Money Men

A Hot Startup, A Billion Dollar Fraud, A Fight for the Truth

By: Dan McCrum
Narrated by: Dan McCrum
Length: 13 hours 2 minutes

Brought to you by Penguin.

When investigative journalist Dan McCrum first came across Wirecard, the hot new tech company that looked poised to challenge Silicon Valley, it all looked a little too good to be true: offices were sprouting up all over the world, they were reporting runaway growth and the CEO even wore a black turtleneck in tribute to... Read more

Code Name Blue Wren

The True Story of America's Most Dangerous Female Spy—and the Sister She Betrayed

By: Jim Popkin
Narrated by: Jim Popkin
Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

The incredible true story of Ana Montes, the most damaging female spy in US history, drawing upon never-before-seen material and to be published upon her release from prison, for readers of Agent Sonya and A Woman of No Importance.

Just days after the 9-11 attacks, a senior Pentagon analyst eased her red Toyota Echo into traffic and headed to... Read more

Lying For Money

How Legendary Frauds Reveal the Workings of the World

By: Dan Davies
Narrated by: Tim Paige
Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

An entertaining, deeply informative explanation of how high-level financial crimes work, written “with verve and wit” (The Sunday Times, London) by an industry insider who’s an expert in the field.

The way most white-collar crime works is by manipulating institutional psychology. That means creating something that looks as much as possible like a... Read more

Secrecy World

Inside the Panama Papers Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite

By: Jake Bernstein
Narrated by: Jake Bernstein
Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Secrecy World is the inspiration for the Major Motion Picture The Laundromat from Director Steven Soderbergh, Starring Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, and Antonio Banderas

A two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist takes us inside the world revealed by the Panama Papers, a landscape of illicit money, political corruption, and fraud on a global... Read more

Confident Women

Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion

By: Tori Telfer
Narrated by: Jaime Lamchick
Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

A thoroughly entertaining and darkly humorous roundup of history’s notorious but often forgotten female con artists and their bold, outrageous scams—by the acclaimed author of Lady Killers.
From Elizabeth Holmes and Anna Delvey to Frank Abagnale and Charles Ponzi, audacious scams and charismatic scammers continue to intrigue us as a culture. As... Read more

Big Dirty Money

The Shocking Injustice and Unseen Cost of White Collar Crime

By: Jennifer Taub
Narrated by: Eliza Foss
Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

"Taub explicitly and persuasively places the breakdown of enforcement and accountability in the context of money and class."--The New York Times

How ordinary Americans suffer when the rich and powerful use tax dodges or break the law to get richer and more powerful--and how we can stop it.

There is an elite crime spree happening in America, and... Read more

Retail Gangster

The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie

By: Gary Weiss
Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
Length: 11 hours 59 minutes

A biography of the spectacular rise and fall of Eddie Antar, better known as "Crazy Eddie," whose home electronics empire changed the world even as it turned out to be one of the biggest business scams of all time

Back in the fall of 2016 we heard the news about the passing of Eddie Antar, "Crazy Eddie" as he was known to millions of people, the... Read more

Bad Blood

Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

By: John Carreyrou
Narrated by: Will Damron
Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

“Theranos was a startup that set itself apart from the bevy of others in Silicon Valley. Its cause was noble, manufacturing revolutionary medical technology that could run a menu of blood tests on only a finger stick's worth of blood, eliminating the need for large painful needles. There was only one problem: the technology didn't exist.... Read more

Dopesick

Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

By: Beth Macy
Narrated by: Beth Macy
Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

“Dopesick should be required reading for ages 14 and up. Detailed, devastating, and infuriating, Dopesick tells how big Pharma, and Purdue specifically, is responsible for the addiction and deaths of thousands of Americans. If you think addication can't happen to you or those you love, this book will give you story after story of people who felt... Read more

The Chickenshit Club

Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute ExecutivesWhite Collar Criminals

By: Jesse Eisinger
Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
Length: 13 hours 36 minutes

Winner of the 2018 Excellence in Financial Journalism Award

From Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Jesse Eisinger, “a fast moving, fly-on-the-wall, disheartening look at the deterioration of the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission…It is a book of superheroes” (San Francisco Review of Books).

Why were no bankers put in... Read more

The Smartest Guys in the Room

The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron

By: Bethany McLean & Peter Elkind
Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
Length: 22 hours 30 minutes

The definitive volume on Enron's amazing rise and scandalous fall, from an award-winning team of Fortune investigative reporters. Read more

Billion Dollar Loser

The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork

By: Reeves Wiedeman
Narrated by: Will Collyer
Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

A Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller: This "vivid" inside story of WeWork and its CEO tells the remarkable saga of one of the most audacious, and improbable, rises and falls in American business history (Ken Auletta).

​Christened a potential savior of Silicon Valley's startup culture, Adam Neumann was set to take WeWork, his office share... Read more

Kleptopia

How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World

By: Tom Burgis
Narrated by: Tom Burgis
Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

“A must-read for anyone wanting to better understand what has already happened here in America and what lies ahead if Trump is reelected in November…. A magisterial account of the money and violence behind the world’s most powerful dictatorships.” –Washington PostIn this shocking, meticulously reported work of narrative nonfiction, an... Read more