TPM Reader EC says that Richard Whitney, who I mentioned a few days ago as a Depression-Era Bernie Madoff, doesn’t hold a candle to another contender, Ivar Kreuger, whose fraud was so vast he actually precipitated a reasonably sized market crash in 1933.
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