The Wagon to Disaster

Featured in two separate, hour-long documentaries on CBS’s 60 Minutes and CNBC’s American Greed, this is the untold story of the HealthSouth scandal; with Aaron Beam, former founder and CFO; a cautionary tale of greed you won’t forget, along with its dark character, Richard Marin Scrushy, an unlikely opportunist with a G.E.D. and a respiratory therapy certificate who makes $900 million building a Fortune 500 company...only to lose it all.  Hardback, 178 pages.   SYNOPSIS It was the quintessential American success story: Identify a niche; form a company to exploit it; raise millions in venture capital; take the concept public; meet stockholder expectations for 40 straight quarters, in the process becoming a darling of Wall Street; and of course make money plenty of it while the stock price steadily climbs and revenue projections increase. In a few short years you've gone from rags to riches...you re on a monster roll... Until your boss, saddled with the realization that the Street expe