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How it Felt Running a $700 Million Bank Fraud

Author
Rachel Tuffery
Published
Fri 29 Aug 2025
Episode Link
https://shows.acast.com/what-it-was-like/episodes/68b13f71e9dcbdcab92974b5

In 2003, a Wall Street trader named John Rusnak was convicted of bank fraud and sentenced to more than seven years in prison. In this episode, John explains how a series of bad bets snowballed into one of the biggest white-collar crimes in US history and why he kept doubling down.

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