commercial criminals

"... presents descriptions of theories about white-collar crime offenders and offenses. ... This book is a work which looks at the world of largely corporate investigations of fraud related crime by private investigators mainly in the large professional practices of consultants, lawyers and accountants. ... evaluating investigations before unfolding a variety of real case studies of investigations"--Introduction.

Describes the Wall Street disaster brought about by Swedish financier Ivan Krueger, who bankrupted millions of people in the 1930s in a scheme to lend money from American investors to European governments in exchange for matchstick monopolies.