Stick em up movie3/10/2023 ![]() I had stumbled on one of the core premises of the book, he said: “Within each of us, there is this calculating gangster.” Fear of getting caught keeps many of us from committing crimes, but if 95 percent of people around you are on the take, he said, “you seem like a chump” for living a clean life. He had apparently not considered the possibility that such an angle could get him on “Oprah.” I called to ask whether I could use his economic treatise as a self-help book. He is co-author of a recent book, “Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence and the Poverty of Nations,” which delves into topics like corruption in the developing world and how skimming, embezzling and graft work and why they are so common. SO I called an expert on corruption, Raymond Fisman, at Columbia Business School. Ponzis, part of the grand array of pyramid schemes, are so storied and simple that one was the subject of an old episode of “Dragnet.” ![]() Madoff has been accused of orchestrating. There’s something almost comforting about a Ponzi scheme like the one that Bernard L. If I can’t go Blago, and Dreier is beyond my ken, maybe I could try the full Madoff. I’ve got a feeling he’s not quite sure, either. Dreier is said to have impersonated some guy in Canada to get some kind of deal signed, but I’m still trying to figure out what, if anything, he was trying to do. Dreier, the highflying lawyer, is accused of engaging in. I could try the kind of intrigue that Marc S. If you’ve been reading the news, however, there’s been plenty of white-collar shenanigans to choose from. Sadly, I’ve got the same problem here as with vice: no seat worth selling. But he provides inspiration nonetheless a white-collar road could be the innovative path to the riches I’m seeking. Of course, the helmet-haired governor has only been accused of dirty dealings like conspiring to sell Barack Obama’s old Senate seat. I don’t print that kind of language I’m no Rod Blagojevich, or even Patti Blagojevich.ĭid somebody say Blagojevich? There’s an idea. “If you think of 25 of them,” he said, “then you’re a genius and you ain’t no genius.”Īnd he didn’t say “mess up,” but it’s easy enough to look up the accurately profane quotation. Teddy said that whenever you try a decent crime, there are 50 ways you’re going to mess up. When it comes to crime, I like the wisdom from Teddy, the character Mickey Rourke played in “Body Heat,” the 1981 movie. Undaunted, he threatened the worker with his fist they proceeded to the till.Īccording to a report on KPTV in Portland, “When the robber reached for the money, the employee grabbed a power washer and sprayed the man in the face.” The would-be criminal mastermind fled the report did not say whether the washer was set to dispense the hot wax. But his gun, which may have been an air pistol, broke apart. Wearing a white skeleton mask a nice touch he threatened a car-wash worker and demanded money. Anything I tried would end up a little like the story of the man who tried to hold up the Washman Auto Spa in Portland, Ore., last month. Violent crime, like robbery, is probably also not a good idea. Just a hunch, really, but I’ve got to think that a 51-year-old is past his sell-by date in the sexual grocery. So, naturally, I’m thinking of taking up a life of crime.īut which crime? Vice, clearly, is out. IN an uncertain economy, when returns are poor on traditional investments, some people seek the haven of alternate revenue strategies.
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