Fractals of Deception: Odyssey of a Great Recession Fall Girl

The government tricked their investors, banks tricked the government, brokers tricked banks and borrowers tricked the brokers. Although everyone was willfully complicit in this multifaceted slight-of-hand when it crumbled only a handful of people went to prison for mortgage fraud. I was one of them.

On the ten-year anniversary of the Great Recession, I am climbing out the maze of trickery to tell the true story of my own special fractal of deception, a layer of chicanery that has not been ex...