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Eric N. Berg

Business Crime

Fast Money, Secret Lives

In an elaborate FBI sting to expose corruption, four agents pose as futures traders in Chicago. The plan works–if you don’t count the hundreds of thousands in taxpayer dollars the agents lost in the process.

Eric N. Berg New York Times Jan 1989 10min Permalink