Prison awaits pair who ripped off adviser and others in a plot with many twists.
All this story’s missing is the screenwriter.
The real-life characters include a failed politician turned skillful fraudster. He heads to prison next month. Add to the cast the brother of a pop music star who ran an aspiring hedge fund and an attorney who doggedlyspent years uncovering the fraud.
The scene opens with a chance encounter in an airport lounge between John Lakian and Diane Lamm in 2006. This touches off a romance (Lakian was married) and a crime spree reminiscent of Bonnie and Clyde. But instead of Tommy guns and bullets, the defendants lobbed a labyrinth of shell companies and subterfuge that Lakian had honed over the years. Before any credits rolled, they would make off with millions...
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