As The Money Burns

Dummy Accounts

As The Money Burns

Show Notes

One couple deals with more betrayal when litigation publicly reveals financial secrets.

September 23rd – October 27th, 1932, William May Wright, aka “Bill,” returns to New York to deal with litigation involving his former stockbroker firm. Cobina Wright hopes that they will be able to rekindle their relationship, but other troubles arise from the lawsuit as their financial troubles are announced in the press.

Other people and subjects include: Lil Cobina Wright, Jr., Doris Duke, Nanaline Duke, Walker Inman, James H.R. Cromwell aka “Jimmy,” Jessie Woolworth Donahue, cheating, affairs, Wall Street Crash of 1929, Wright, Slade, & Company, Shields Company, stockbroker, Ponzi scheme, pyramid scheme, dummy accounts, shell game, accounting, fraud, Casa Cobina, tracking down past details, 1932 court case, cheating, affairs, different language and wording, losing home to IRS, parental divorce, Savings and Loan, Arthur Anderson, Enron, other losses, cycle of history

Archival Music provided by Past Perfect Vintage Music, www.pastperfect.com.

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