How Starting an Investment Firm Almost Landed Me in a Federal Prison

I’m personally familiar with how easy it is to find oneself in legal jeopardy. A few decades ago, I came dangerously close to being indicted, not because I’d broken the law but due to a bizarre confluence of circumstances. Only a few people know this part of my history. Those who do tell me the following story sounds like a tale from a book or a movie. Long before I began writing, people encouraged me to write a book about this episode of my life. So about a year and a half ago, I decided to do just that. I began working on a memoir. In addition to the story that follows, the final product will chronicle my finance career, a journey that began in the early eighties in the Deep South and ended decades later on Wall Street. <a href="https://medium.com/the-journeyman-newsletter/how-starting-an-investment-firm-almost-landed-me-in-a-federal-prison-652ef7f222a2">Read More</a>