Billion Dollar Whale The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World

We wrote billion dollar whale, we wrote about corruption at Goldman Sachs, this guy Jolo who we think orchestrated the largest one of the largest financial frauds ever.

He never called us a foreign agent, but he did, he went after us. He said he was going to sue us.

This book is jammed with celebrity names. You can't really get more kind of ridiculous than this kid. And he's 27.

It was described as the most expensive private party ever thrown by the host of the last holes of the rich and famous right so it was there Robin Leech right so this guy is profiling like Malibu mansions cut into the hills saying this is a ridiculous party I've never seen anything like this.

When it came out a few years ago you know the book shops around the world received letters from a firm called shillings in the uk threatening them that they could be the target of a defamation lawsuit if they took our book.

We wrote 'Billion Dollar Whale', we wrote about corruption at Goldman Sachs, this guy Jho Low who we think orchestrated the largest one of the largest financial frauds ever.

We call it in the book, we call it 'peak Jho Low' and it's a prologue of 'Billion Dollar Whale' because it was described as the most expensive private party ever thrown by the host of the last holes of the rich and famous.

And then the book gets into all these other ways of money can be laundered, it can be laundered through real estate, it can be laundered through jewelry, art, you know Jho Low becomes one of the biggest art purchasers on the planet.

When it came out a few years ago, you know the book shops around the world received letters from a firm called Schillings in the UK threatening them that they could be the target of a defamation lawsuit if they took our book.

Big thank you to Tom Wright, the book title is 'Billion Dollar Whale', of course he's got a lot on the plate including 'Fat Leonard' which will link in the show notes.