New Yorker
Aug 2007
The trade in fake olive oil.
How a Rhode Island lawyer named Joseph Caramadre made millions by exploiting the life insurance industry’s fine print.
“What could possibly be funnier than depositing a perfectly ridiculous, obviously false, fake cheque?”
On the trade school’s business model and its founder, a former movie producer named Jerry Sherlock.
Every year, more than $6 billion is raised by breast cancer charities. A look at how much of that money ends up in the hands of scammers.