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"During Wall Street's big bull market, there were brokers in $3,000 suits, billion-dollar IPOs, and twenty-year-olds making $500,000 a month. And then there was Louis Pasciuto, who came from Staten Island at the age of eighteen and discovered an indelible truth: He was born to steal. And The Street was made for him." "This is the astounding, true story of the rise and fall of a fast-talking stock hustler, as well as a shocking portrait of the insidious ways the Mob infiltrates and fleeces Wall Street. From outrageous scams to out-of-control strip-club parties, Born to Steal takes you inside the lives of brash young men who flaunt their ignorance of stocks, bonds, and PE ratios even as they become the perfect foot soldiers in a vast campaign to separate honest people from their money." "Trading his jeans and T-shirt for a $90 suit, Louis Pasciuto arrived on Wall Street in 1992 to join a "chop house," a crooked brokerage firm set up by a charismatic Mob-connected overlord. Working out of seventeen brokerage firms, Louis sold often worthless or nonexistent stocks to gullible retirees in Phoenix, naive farmers in Nebraska, and profit-chasing millionaires in California - right under the

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Author

Gary R. Weiss

Publisher

Warner Books

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780446528573

Category

history

Subjects

Business, Memoir, True Crime

Rating

3.39 / 5 (137 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14