Table of Contents
Foreword.
Acknowledgments.
Allied Capital Stock Price Chart.
Who's Who.
Introduction: The Spark of a Speech.
Part One: A Charity Case and Greenlight Capital.
Chapter 1 Before Greenlight.
Chapter 2 Getting the "Greenlight".
Chapter 3 Greenlight's Early Success.
Chapter 4 Value Investing through the Internet Bubble.
Chapter 5 Dissecting Allied Capital.
Part Two: Spinning So Fast Leaves Most People Dizzy.
Chapter 6 Allied Talks Back.
Chapter 7 Wall Street Analysts.
Chapter 8 The You-Have-Got-to-Be-Kidding-Me Method of Accounting.
Chapter 9 Fact—Or Maybe Not.
Chapter 10 Business Loan Express.
Chapter 11 Disengaging and Re-engaging.
Chapter 12 Me or Your Lyin' Eyes?
Chapter 13 Debates and Manipulations.
Chapter 14 Rewarding Shareholders.
Chapter 15 BLX Is Worth What, Exactly?
Part Three: Would Somebody, Anybody, Wake Up?
Chapter 16 The Government Investigates.
Chapter 17 A Tough Morning.
Chapter 18 A Spinner, a Scribe, and a Scholar.
Chapter 19 Kroll Digs Deeper.
Chapter 20 Rousing the Authorities.
Chapter 21 A $9 Million Game of Three-Card Monte.
Part Four: How the System Works (and Doesn’t).
Chapter 22 Hello, Who's There?
Chapter 23 Whistle-Blower.
Chapter 24 A Naked Attack.
Chapter 25 Another Loan Program, Another Fraud.
Chapter 26 The Smell of Politics.
Chapter 27 Insiders Getting the Money Out.
Part Five: Greenlight Was Right . . . Carry On.
Chapter 28 Charges and Denials.
Chapter 29 Charges and Admissions.
Chapter 30 Late Innings.
Chapter 31 The SEC Finds a Spot under the Rug.
Chapter 32 A Garden of Weeds.
Chapter 33 A Conviction, a Hearing, and a Dismissal.
Chapter 34 Blind Men, Elephants, Möbius Strips, and Moral Hazards.
Glossary.
About the Author.
Index.
