America’s most magnificent nineteenth-century mansion. Built by one of the era’s great robber barons, it was a remarkable place with countless barns, secluded guesthouses, servants’ quarters, and a bathing pavilion, all set among acres of manicured lawns. What do they say? Behind every great fortune lies a great crime? Although the plaque next to the front doors didn’t mention it, the estate was, in fact, funded by one of the largest securities frauds in US history. Unfortunately, it meant that when, after several generations, the money ran out, the house—horrendously expensive to
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