Bio
Bret A. Aita is a registered representative of the National Association of Securities Dealers, and is a licensed Investment Advisor. He has worked as a representative of Morgan Stanley, where he specialized in Corporate Finance and Managed Futures. Aita has served as an investment consultant for some of the nation’s highest net-worth individuals, and through these associations he has built a rapport that allows him unique access to the highest levels of business, and into the minds of the industry’s elite. He has a Master’s degree in Business Administration from California State University.
Project Description
On the boiler-room floor, the rookie pounds the phone. He’s cold-calling, relentlessly delivering the prescribed pitch, desperate to sell the poor sucker on the other end of the line something he never knew he needed…Welcome to the early 1990s, the golden age of economic prosperity. The party is raging, and the stock-market fraudsters are circling like barracudas. Greed rules. In The Rip (ECW, May 2003), onetime boiler-room insider Bret Aita shines a light on this decadent culture and its players. Before the market bubble burst, these hustlers squandered their illicit gains on flashy cars, top restaurants, and season football tickets—along with drugs, prostitutes, gambling, and wild parties. Aita exposes their intricate scams: the classic pump-and-dump, the bear raid, and the false offering. He also introduces you to the industry regulators who eventually broke up the fraudulent game and took some of these white-collar criminals down.
