HOW ONE MAN FOUGHT AGAINST LARGE-SCALE FINANCIAL CORRUPTION ...AND
WON
When Carlos Legaspy, Mexican-American owner of a rising broker-dealer,
uncovered the inner workings of a nine- figure Ponzi scheme, he thought
he was doing the right thing by sounding the alarm. Instead, the fraud's
perpetrators shifted blame onto him, touching o a two-year saga of
betrayal, fraud, and high-stakes financial drama that would extend over
international borders and impact some of Wall Street's biggest
players--and bring Legaspy's own business and reputation to the brink of
destruction.
Going for Broke chronicles Legaspy's rise from the grandson of a
junkyard owner in Mexico to the head of a successful broker-dealer to
becoming an overnight pariah facing $40 million in legal claims for
malfeasance he did not commit. To clear his name, Legaspy wages a
multifront war against conniving attorneys, scheming financial advisors,
aggressive regulators, and deep-pocketed banks in a race to save his
company before the scandal leaves him bankrupt and his company in ruins.
Legaspy's tale reminds us that, even in a cutthroat industry where
"guilty until proven innocent" takes the place of due process and allies
are few and far between, you're not down for the count as long as you
can get back up and throw one more punch.