They Sold My Penthouse To Fund A Startup—Then I Ordered A Full Audit And Watched Their World Collapse

his own glass high for a deal that I knew—because I had checked the company registration out of professional curiosity—was a Ponzi scheme that would collapse within eighteen months, leaving dozens of investors broke and angry.

I sat there invisible at the end of the table, sipping my wine in silence, watching this theater of delusion. My mother turned continue reading …