Impeccable Connections: The Rise And Fall Of Richard Whitney – Stealing From Clients To Cover Debts. Sound Familiar?
Brookyn, NY, May 6, 2013 – “Not Dick Whitney. Not Dick Whitney!” President Franklin D. Roosevelt exclaimed upon being told Richard Whitney, the long-time president of the New York Stock Exchange, was a criminal. Almost ten years earlier, on October 24, 1929, Black Thursday, as one newspaper’s headline put it the next day, “Richard Whitney Halts …