I cannot imagine such a swindle being attempted in the US today, much less successfully.
I feel a little sadness for that.
There is something attractive about a place where so many crazy things are possible. Not that I would trade my existence for that one, but I feel something akin to nostalgia for the wide-open possibilities of such a place.
I don't know, I look at the world of cryptocurrencies and things like NFTs and think, man, there are some pretty wild swindles going on right now! Things that Mr. McMahon would never imagined possible when he put 480" on those designs.
I do follow some of the shortsellers and read their reports on certain companies from time to time: America has no shortage of swindlers even today,only nowadays they have fancy job titles.
Nowadays similar things get out to the public and bored internet people pick them apart.
The best scams these days are hidden under NDA so you never hear of them (one hired someone to disprove maxwell’s equation as that was needed to run their over unity device. So he developed tests that could show if maxwell was right or wrong and collected the paycheck).
I feel a little sadness for that.
There is something attractive about a place where so many crazy things are possible. Not that I would trade my existence for that one, but I feel something akin to nostalgia for the wide-open possibilities of such a place.