Banker Sitting in U.S. Prison Has a Most Incredible Tale to Tell
- Eugene Gourevitch claims he saw looting, bribery in Kyrgyzstan
- Now he says he wants to help U.S. recover millions lost
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Eugene Gourevitch, a 39-year-old Berkeley-educated finance whiz, spends his days working in the library in a federal prison in Montgomery, Alabama. He’s serving a five-year sentence for wire fraud related to insider trading.
How Gourevitch ended up as an inmate is no run-of-the-mill Wall Street tale of a promising career gone awry. It’s a story so snarled that it borders on the absurd, part pulp thriller, part black comedy. And it shows what can happen when the government is stuck relying on a crafty opportunist.
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Banker Sitting in U.S. Prison Has a Most Incredible Tale to Tell