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The Pretender

How Martin Frankel Fooled the Financial World and Led the Feds on One of the Most Publicized Manhunts in History

By: Ellen Pollock

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Paperback | 2 October 2002 | Edition Number 1

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It's a story with all the makings of a television drama: a reclusive financial whiz swindles insurance companies out of $200 million, attracts a harem of young women, outsmarts a posse of bumbling federal agents in a chase across Europe, and leads some very famous people down the garden path. Yet it's all part of the very real life of Martin Frankel. THE PRETENDER chronicles how a nerdy thirty year old used his financial skills to build an intricate Ponzi scheme based on lies and his amazing gift for luring businessmen, including Democratic power broker Robert Strauss, into his web. While Frankel's stolen millions allowed him to easily transform himself from mama's boy to corporate mogul, his attempts to go 'global' proved more challenging. Nevertheless, his creation of a phony Catholic charity drew the attention of priests with close Vatican ties and a new group of mysterious business partners, until increasing paranoia caused Frankel to vanish from his Greenwich estate, beginning a bizarre chase across Europe that would climax in a German hotel room.

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Cast of Characters	p. ix
Prologue: The Fire	p. 1
A Real Job	p. 7
Marty's First Fraud	p. 23
A Creative Partnership	p. 41
A Special Trust	p. 58
Phone Pals	p. 71
Domestic Bliss	p. 87
Mounting Pressure	p. 113
Mr. Corbally and Mr. Strauss	p. 125
Getting Religion	p. 136
Enter the Consultants	p. 157
A Credibility Gap	p. 170
Unmasked in Greenwich	p. 180
Trouble	p. 183
Escape Plans	p. 197
A Summons to Mississippi	p. 207
On the Road	p. 220
Betrayal	p. 243
Epilogue: The Homecoming	p. 249
Notes	p. 255
Acknowledgments	p. 266
Index	p. 269
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The Pretender

How Martin Frankel Fooled the Financial World and Led the Feds on One of the Most Publicized Manhunts in History

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