a very interesting collection of crime and criminals in motorsports, a new book about drug trafficking, corruption, embezzlement, robbery, fraud, murder and money laundering.. and how drivers, team owners, investors, etc were involved

Of course, we're all familiar with the decades long murder mystery of Mickey Thompson by his business partner that was finally solved, but there are a lot of other stories just as intriguing:

Nick Whiting (casualty of the biggest gold bullion heist in British history)

 Jerry Dominelli (a Ponzi scheme that funded top-level racing Porsches)

David Thieme (the Lotus sponsor who vanished)

Lord Brocket (jailed for staging the theft of his classic cars, including Ferraris)

And this is a wild one:

Ever heard of Fatemeh Angela Harkness, who at age 31, had embezzled over $1 million from an Austin bank to assemble a NASCAR team called Angela's Motorsports?

Angela Harkness was born Fatemeh Karimkhani in Iran in 1976. When she was three years old, they fled Iran when the government was overthrown by extremists. She moved to Texas at the age of 19 in 1995 to earn her citizenship by marrying then moved to California in 1998 and began working as a stripper at the Candy Cat. 

She viewed nascar as a great way to make even more money. With a little investment, sponsors would bring millions of dollars and line their pockets with cash. With bank loans created a team that would run in the Busch Series. Angela's Motorsports was born. Checks started bouncing while employees and suppliers weren't getting anything. Wells Fargo was beginning to notice all the loans, seeing the team was a fraud, Robert Yates repossessed his tools and engine. Angela returned to stripping. Later that year, US Marshals discovered was working as a beautician in Dubai. In 07 she served three years in prison for the scam.

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