The State Fraud Files
True stories of con artists, scams, and fortunes lost. Find the Amazon editions or explore the next ebooks coming to Fraud Files and Google Play Books.
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Volume 01 · Florida
Thirteen documented Florida cases trace how trusted institutions and convincing paperwork gave false promises the appearance of ordinary business. Eli Strongrum follows the money through precious metals, investment accounts, health care, identity theft, charity, and clinical research.
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Volume 02 · Texas
Twelve Texas cases examine the promises behind financial statements, medical charts, public contracts, and family homes. From Billie Sol Estes and Enron to crowdfunding and foreclosure rescue, the book explains how the schemes worked and distinguishes criminal outcomes from civil settlements.
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Volume 03 · California
Twelve California cases explore the promises behind mineral wealth, insurance policies, medical technology, clean energy, and public education. Eli Strongrum examines how impressive claims gained credibility and what the records revealed when those claims were tested.
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Volume 04 · New York
Thirteen New York cases examine the authority attached to Wall Street offices, respected names, art galleries, and public contracts. From Grant & Ward to Madoff and CityTime, Eli Strongrum follows the records that made a promise persuasive and the checks that exposed its weaknesses.
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Volume 05 · Illinois
Twelve Illinois cases follow the records behind investment promises, state payments, city finances, school contracts, and advertising sales. Eli Strongrum examines how control over everyday paperwork shaped what outsiders could see, and how the discrepancies came to light.
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Volume 06 · New Jersey
Twelve New Jersey cases follow warehouse receipts, securities prices, corporate earnings, school invoices, and medical referrals. Eli Strongrum asks who supplied the proof and who could have checked it independently.
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Volume 07 · Georgia
Twelve Georgia cases trace the records behind public spending, bank credit, laboratory results, and investment promises. Eli Strongrum follows the money while keeping pleas, verdicts, acquittals, and pardons distinct.
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Volume 08 · Pennsylvania
Twelve Pennsylvania cases examine public deposits, corporate accounts, hidden debt, school vendors, nonprofit leases, and city contracts. Each account follows the records that gave a promise authority and the facts that challenged it.
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Volume 09 · Arizona
Twelve Arizona cases explore forged land claims, investment promises, medical orders, campaign reimbursements, and music royalties. The book examines how documents moved money and authority before the underlying facts were tested.
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Volume 10 · Nevada
Twelve Nevada cases follow mining-stock promotions, casino accounting, homeowners associations, medical promises, and online fraud. Eli Strongrum examines who controlled the records and what independent evidence revealed.
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Volume 11 · North Carolina
Twelve North Carolina cases examine investment partnerships, mortgages, research data, medical testing, and insurance-company transactions. Each account asks which outside record could have tested a trusted claim sooner.
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Volume 12 · Ohio
Twelve Ohio cases trace forged inheritance claims, corporate accounts, rare-coin funds, school invoices, and mortgage promises. Eli Strongrum explains how authority became apparent evidence and how the records were challenged.
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Volume 13 · Michigan
Twelve Michigan cases follow city contracts, school invoices, union expenses, medical treatment, emissions testing, and nonprofit finances. The book examines who controlled the decisive record and who could check it.
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Volume 15 · Washington
Fourteen Washington cases explore investment funds, immigration-linked investments, mint accounts, public payroll, laboratory referrals, and nonprofit finances. Each account follows the gap between a trusted record and the fact it claimed to represent.
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Volume 16 · Massachusetts
Fourteen Massachusetts cases range from Charles Ponzi to construction records, hidden trading commissions, pharmacy practices, laboratory testing, and false rent rolls. Eli Strongrum follows the promise, the money, and the distinct legal outcomes.
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Volume 17 · Tennessee
Fourteen Tennessee cases follow auto finance, tax returns, pharmacy records, emergency relief, client settlements, and land deeds. Each chapter identifies the independent record that could have tested a consequential claim sooner.
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Volume 18 · Colorado
Fourteen Colorado cases examine consumer data, funeral financing, taxes, environmental services, public procurement, crop insurance, and elder fraud. Each account separates the promise, the movement of money, and the legal outcome.
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Volume 19 · Louisiana
Fourteen Louisiana cases explore film tax credits, hurricane assistance, hospice records, church property, student aid, and counterfeit checks. Each chapter asks what evidence existed beyond the form people were asked to trust.
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Volume 20 · Maryland
Fourteen Maryland cases trace investment portfolios, public-office spending, contractor certifications, mortgage records, and elder fraud. The book follows how trust entered each transaction and which independent records contradicted the claim.
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