Salient to Investors:

Convicted felon Sam Antar says stock-picking sets you up as a mark for the unscrupulous because investors live on hope and it is the criminal’s job to take advantage of that hope. Antar said criminals are as short-sighted, if not more so, as the rest of us – nobody ever plans on failure and prisons are full of people who never planned on being there.

The number of FBI white-collar crime prosecutions has fallen by half since the 1990s. 

Read the full article at http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-21/why-drug-lords-and-criminals-are-so-risk-averse.html

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