Why are the most dangerous ideas always the most seductive? In trying to get lost, I found myself. The flashing cameras he attracts threaten to expose everything I’m hiding, but I can’t seem to stay away. Everything is simple and uncomplicated until Simon Duchesne-former hotshot Navy fighter pilot, NOLA’s favorite son, city councilman, and rumored congressional hopeful-walks into my life. I traded my future in New York high finance for tattoos, booze, a few friends who don’t ask questions, and one giant mutt named Huckleberry Finn. I’m making a new life in New Orleans as Charlie Stone. Faced with living under a cloud of suspicion and constant questioning by the FBI, I ran. Bernie Madoff was an amateur compared to Alistair Agoston.
Not the ‘let’s go for a jog and slap a 26.2 sticker on your bumper’ kind of runner I’m the kind of runner who takes off when her father is staring down the barrel of a guilty verdict that carries a 175-year sentence for perpetrating the largest fraud in the history of the world.
more My name is Charlotte Agoston, and I’m a runner. My name is Charlotte Agoston, and I’m a runner.
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