A central character of the 2022 novel “Undermoney” is a New York hedge-fund magnate entangled in a world of corrupt spies, Russian mercenaries and vaults of shadowy money. In one passage, a security operative tells the investor, “My guess is that hackers are stealing your data every day, and most of the time your guys don’t even know they’re there.” In real life, an Israeli private investigator named Amit Forlit is on supervised curfew in a posh north London neighborhood, facing extradition to the U.S. on federal hacking charges. Prosecutors are investigating whether Forlit orchestrated the theft of emails from Argentine officials while working on behalf of a big hedge fund that sued the South American country over defaulted debt. from A Financier Penned a Crime Novel. Prosecutors Want to Know How Much Was Fiction [WSJ]
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