Howard Megdal

Wilpon's Folly (eBook, ePUB)

The Story of a Man, His Fortune, and the New York Mets

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

On December 11, 2008, in the middle of a busy baseball offseason, Bernard Madoff was arrested for orchestrating a massive financial fraud. Among his chief investors was Mets owner Fred Wilpon, who not only lost a major revenue stream as a result, but is now being sued for "fictitious profits" that he now owes to other Madoff victims. To the tune of almost a billion dollars. How did this happen? Where did Wilpon go wrong, and why does a fraud victim suddenly owe money? The truth about these questions has been largely hidden, but in this short book, the whole story is fully revealed. In this tight narrative, Howard Megdal tells the dramatic financial tale and proves a surprising truth: Wilpon's thirty-year reign as owner of the Mets is about to end. Perhaps the most public victim of the Madoff scandal, Wilpon now faces a long road, and likely a difficult offseason. Here Megdal articulates both Wilpon's position and those against him. Like Michael Lewis' The Big Short, this book unravels the world of a major investment scandal through an entertaining and recognizable story.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 64
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781608199044
• Artikelnr.: 38427202

Autorenporträt

Howard Megdal is a writer for the Web sites
SNY.tv, MLBTradeRumors.com,
New York Baseball Digest, and Amazin'
Avenue. He lives in Airmont, New York, with his wife,
daughter, and an organizational depth chart of the Mets on the wall. He
has the support of over twenty Mets baseball bloggers, with a collective
monthly traffic of over 5 million readers. His Web site is www.megdalforgm.com.