America's Biggest Financial Scam Revisited….63 Years Later

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - May 16, 2017 - PRLog -- How could an unassuming man with thick horn-rimmed glasses and rumpled suits outwit the Commodities Market and the New York Stock Exchange? How could a high school dropout orchestrate a $10 billion scandal — then disappear into thin air?

Critically-acclaimed author M.G. Crisci takes you on an epic journey of deceit and deception in his latest book The Salad Oil King. An American Tale of Greed Gone Mad. (Orca Publishing, $19.95, 449 pages) inspired by real events that took place before the advent of the Internet.

Manhattan Book Review says "Crisci's approachable style makes you picture what is happening as you meet an unforgettable cast of characters and circumstances that will leave you laughing or shaking your head, or both." While San Francisco Literary Review calls it, "A classic tale of American crime, told by a master storyteller."

In 1927, a little boy named Fonso is taught to scam neighbors by his father.  Fonso's nefarious skills expand exponentially. He cleverly skims millions from Federal aid programs without a hiccup.  Dark side hubris leads him to create his Mona Lisa, a financial scam so large that it is simply unimaginable.   When the dust settles, brokerage houses go bankrupt, the commodity market shuts down, business alliances vanish, and friends either commit suicide or go mad. Ironically, JFK is assassinated and his story evades the headlines, to say nothing of the hundreds of millions that were never recovered.

Manhattan born M.G. Crisci (mgcrisci.com) is the critically-acclaimed author of nine books based on true stories or real events in the genres of literary fiction, historical fiction and drama. He is also recognized expert in the field of consumer motivation and behavior, a thought-provoking social activist, and has been elected to Who's Who in the World 21 times. He has also just completed his first screenplay, Ace44movie.com, in partnership with Russia most famous producer/director's Vladimir Aleinkov.

ISBN (trade paper).  978-0-9914773-9-5
ISBN (e-book).          978-0-9850019-5-2


e-mail: mgcrisci [at] mgcrisci dot com
URL: http://www.mgcrisci.com, http://www.ace44movie.com