
Born to Steal
When the Mafia Hit Wall Street
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Narrated by:
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Frank Whaley
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By:
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Gary Weiss
Trading his jeans and T-shirt for a $90 suit, Louis Pasciuto arrived on Wall Street in 1992 to join a "chop house," a crooked brokerage firm set up by a charismatic Mob-connected overlord. Working out of seventeen brokerage firms, Louis sold often worthless or nonexistent stocks to gullible retirees right under the nose of financial regulators. Stuffing his money into a mayonnaise jar - because he didn't have a clue how to invest it - he was quickly making thousands of dollars a day, and ready to strike out on his own. But a shark wanted a piece of Louis's action. Enter Charlie Ricottone, a mobster straight out of The Sopranos, who pummeled people in public, painted his bald spot in private, and was just the advance guard of a money-hungry army of wiseguys.
Suddenly Louis's lifestyle - the stripper girlfriend, his looming marriage to an entirely different woman, the Rolexes, Armanis, celebrity friends, orgies, and three-day cocaine binges - was about to go up in smoke. When the violence escalated and the FBI finally stepped in, Louis had to pull off the ultimate heist: join the Feds and steal back his life.
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Critic reviews
"Fast-moving, tragic, funny, highly entertaining." (AudioFile)
"A remarkable glimpse into the essentially lawless, virtually unregulated turf of easily manipulated penny stocks...and...broker strategies." (St. Petersburg Times)
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Wolf of Wall Street meets the Mob
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Great narrator, good documentary style writing and a cool interview with the author at the end. Those redeeming qualities give it 3 stars. 2 1/2 would be more acurate.
Bummer on Wall St
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Good story, bad language
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Great writer! Brilliant narration!
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a great listen
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Funny
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If you could sum up Born to Steal in three words, what would they be?
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I actually felt like the person telling the story had done what he was talking about. He tells the story well and it was very easy to listen to.What does Frank Whaley bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
Frank brings an incredible amount of emotion in his speaking style, not monotone and definitely not boring.If you could give Born to Steal a new subtitle, what would it be?
A Hustler's guide to selling stocks.A truly enjoyable story for anyone that trades.
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Strong, exciting well read drama . . .
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I am getting a refund and just trying to delete this from my library. The reader is a slightly higher caliber than the matter.
Too ghetto
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I have never heard such a badly written book
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