Death by Wall Street
Rampage of the Bulls
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Homicide Detective-Specialist Lou Martelli pulled his black, unmarked Ford ‘Crown Vic’ to the curb at the foot of the ‘Bowling Green Bull’, a 7,000 pound bronze sculpture that stands near Wall Street in New York City’s Bowling Green Park. It was late winter, 2010. The weather was unusually warm for mid-March. It was difficult to miss the severed head of a man pinned to the left horn of the bull, blood dripping on the bricks below. The crimson pools of blood on the pavement pulsated with irritating regularity in the flashing light of the car’s red, dash-mounted, rotating beacon. “So, what do we have here, Michael?” Lou bellowed, using both hands to lift his left leg over the car’s door jamb. Martelli had been the crew member aboard a Black Hawk helicopter that was shot down in the April, 2003, invasion of Baghdad during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Now, with the help of a prosthetic leg, he walked with a slight limp. He worked for NYPD under a special waiver issued by the mayor. “Hey,” he always reminded those who asked about his injury, “at least I’m alive. That’s more than I can say for the pilot and copilot, who never made it out of the chopper!” What he never talked about was the fact that he lost his leg attempting to save them. Lou worked hard to keep his weight down, primarily to ease the burden on his legs. But at 6-foot, 2-inches and 190 pounds, walking still was difficult. He was a big, muscular guy, the result of working out at the Dominant Fitness & Health Club in Brooklyn almost every morning before he went to work. But with a big workout came a big appetite, so it was a constant fight to stay away from the junk food that beckoned from the vending machine outside the door of his office. “What do we have here? What do we have here? What the hell does it look like we have here, Sarge?” It was Michael Antonetti, Deputy Coroner. “The Running of the fookin’ Bulls in Pamplona, that’s what we have here!” Antonetti was standing on a short step ladder. He had just finished taking pictures of the top of the human head. Now, he was preparing to examine it more closely before preparing to remove and bag it for evidence. A lone crime scene investigator (CSI) from NYPD’s Crime Scene Unit (CSU) was busy snapping photographs of the blood-drenched bricks under the bull’s head.
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Death by Wall Street: Rampage of the Bulls, a murder mystery, is based on real events. It is the story of how the oligarchs of Wall Street, doctors and others in the pharmaceutical research profession having significant conflicts of interest, and employees of two 'captured' US government agencies the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) by design as well as by simply refusing to pursue the evidence of malfeasance provided to them, deny patients life saving treatments that are demonstrated safe and effective in FDA-approved drug trials. When the severed head of a Wall Street stock analyst turns up spiked on a horn of the Wall Street Bull, Detective Louis Martelli of the NYPD is assigned to track down the murderer. But why were this victim and the victims of two similar murders that followed singled out for execution? Martelli eventually learns the answer to this question and tracks down the killer, but not before uncovering some of Wall Street's and the US government's darkest secrets pertaining to the US financial markets and the nation's health care practices. For a video trailer, see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIbhmPCckpQ
About the Author
Theodore J. Cohen, PhD, holds three degrees in the physical sciences from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and has been an engineer and scientist for more than 40 years. He has been an investor since 1960, focusing almost entirely since 1980 on the world of biotechnology. His experience spans the dawn of the Age of Biotechnology in the late 1970’s to today’s era of ever more impactful successes in the field. Death by Wall Street: Rampage of the Bulls, is his first novel pertaining to the fields of investing and biotechnology. Dr. Cohen also has published more than 350 papers, articles, columns, essays, and interviews in the fields of communications and electronics, and is a co-author of The NEW Shortwave Propagation Handbook from CQ Communications. His first novel,
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