Read & Discuss – Billion Dollar Whale by Tom Wright and Bradley Hope

During this meetup, we will discuss *Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World* by Tom Wright and Bradley Hope. "In 2009, a chubby, mild-mannered graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business named Jho Low set in motion a fraud of unprecedented gall and magnitude--one that would come to symbolize the next great threat to the global financial system. Over a decade, Low, with the aid of Goldman Sachs and others, siphoned billions of dollars from an investment fund--right under the nose of global financial industry watchdogs. Low used the money to finance elections, purchase luxury real estate, throw champagne-drenched parties, and even to finance Hollywood films like The Wolf of Wall Street. By early 2019, with his yacht and private jet reportedly seized by authorities and facing criminal charges in Malaysia and in the United States, Low had become an international fugitive, even as the U.S. Department of Justice continued its investigation." * See the Google Sheets list of past, present, and future meeting books / topics [here](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kBylGnpWgSGA4Ql-dPSginrzG0zaE934I5JRmW1lQUQ/edit?gid=507712972#gid=507712972) if interested. We also have a Google Doc [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1muzAM8Aco723KRu_rxivzGorfQiPQGrPLa9_FMAaEBg/edit?usp=sharing) with some details / descriptions of upcoming meetings. Please note that everything listed in both of those is *tentative* – nothing is final until the event is scheduled, since we take in suggestions during meetings. * Some more general notes about the book club: * We rotate through different types of books, with some covering historical or current events and others more along the lines of practical advice about how to do something. * No specific ideas are necessarily endorsed – we try to read a variety of topics to expose ourselves to new ideas and ways of thinking. * We try to grab the room to the…