Members of the capital investment industry and especially Wall Street will remember the Southport Lane Scandal headed by self-proclaimed financial prodigy Alexander Chatfield Burns. The criminal activity had been occurring long before The Wall Street Journal got wind of it. But all it took was one rule-following, good-natured, morally-sound employee to connect the dots and secretly sound the alarm. Pirate Cove by Richard D. Bailey is a first-person insider’s account as to how Richard unraveled the massive $350 million fraud and brought down one of the biggest white-collar crimes in New York. 

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