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April 7, 2011
12:42 • 2 years ago
With a Parade of fancy fraud cases centered on Wall Street so much in Vogue, here is Chatter about a swindle lacking Glamour but still possessing a certain amount of Allure. A man not a New Yorker nicked Condé Nast, the magazine publishing empire full of Self-esteem, for $8 million simply by sending one email.
The folks who wrote this lede — journalists at Forbes — need to be shot, not for the story itself, but for the awful, awful prose. You guys think you’re pretty punny, don’t you?
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