I Should Have Stayed in Morocco by Stephen Caputi won Bronze in the category of Autobiography/Memoirs Non-Fiction in the 2016 Global EBook awards.
To be on the edge. Straddling that fine line between employing aggressive business practices and making split second judgments based on instincts. A select few are able to balance it day after day in order to taste the sweetness of success. One slight ‘nudge’ in the wrong direction could take you swirling backwards over the velvet ropes that separate those privileged champagne-sipping few, from the rest of the meek beer-guzzling wannabes.
Stephen Caputi’s memoir, I Should Have Stayed in Morocco, is not just another forensic account of billionaire Ponzi-schemer Scott Rothstein. Caputi opens his heart and soul as he takes the reader on a journey through two decades rife with personal experiences, misadventures and wild escapades with Rothstein, climaxing with their now-infamous ramble in Casablanca. It’s a frighteningly true story of how friendship and loyalty was dedicatedly served to a master-manipulator, just to be rewarded with deceitful betrayal and a prison sentence.
What people are saying:
“Stephen Caputi opens up his heart and soul as he details his journey of betrayal that takes him from the back offices of some of the most spectacular international nightclubs to the bowels of the federal prison system. A dedicated business partner and loyal friend to Scott Rothstein, one of the most notorious Ponzi schemers in U.S. history, he is dragged from the pinnacle of his success to be served up as one of many sacrificial lambs that Rothstein managed to destroy.
A glimpse to the internal workings of a business empire and the minds of those who built them, Caputi provides a candid perspective on how calculating and corrupt a business partner might actually be behind closed doors. From the sands of Morocco to the concrete floor of a prison cage, this is a journey that any one of us might not be able to avoid if seduced by such a masterful manipulator who offers up morsels of grand fortune and gluttonous wealth.”
~ Rudy A. Mazzocchi, award-winning author of The EQUITY Series
“Throughout the book Steve draws a crystal-clear image and does an Ivy League-quality analysis of the peculiar machinations of ‘the perpetual prisoner money machine’, as he has so accurately monikered the penal system in America. He conducted over 2,000 interviews of inmates and staff over several years during his chimera in prison, compiling a laser-accurate representation of prison life and experiences....
I recommend that I Should Have Stayed In Morocco be required reading for all collegians across America, for entrepreneurs young and old, and for everyone else who is interested in reading a great non-fiction story…”
~ Louis J. Terminello, Esq.
To be on the edge. Straddling that fine line between employing aggressive business practices and making split second judgments based on instincts. A select few are able to balance it day after day in order to taste the sweetness of success. One slight ‘nudge’ in the wrong direction could take you swirling backwards over the velvet ropes that separate those privileged champagne-sipping few, from the rest of the meek beer-guzzling wannabes.
Stephen Caputi’s memoir, I Should Have Stayed in Morocco, is not just another forensic account of billionaire Ponzi-schemer Scott Rothstein. Caputi opens his heart and soul as he takes the reader on a journey through two decades rife with personal experiences, misadventures and wild escapades with Rothstein, climaxing with their now-infamous ramble in Casablanca. It’s a frighteningly true story of how friendship and loyalty was dedicatedly served to a master-manipulator, just to be rewarded with deceitful betrayal and a prison sentence.
What people are saying:
“Stephen Caputi opens up his heart and soul as he details his journey of betrayal that takes him from the back offices of some of the most spectacular international nightclubs to the bowels of the federal prison system. A dedicated business partner and loyal friend to Scott Rothstein, one of the most notorious Ponzi schemers in U.S. history, he is dragged from the pinnacle of his success to be served up as one of many sacrificial lambs that Rothstein managed to destroy.
A glimpse to the internal workings of a business empire and the minds of those who built them, Caputi provides a candid perspective on how calculating and corrupt a business partner might actually be behind closed doors. From the sands of Morocco to the concrete floor of a prison cage, this is a journey that any one of us might not be able to avoid if seduced by such a masterful manipulator who offers up morsels of grand fortune and gluttonous wealth.”
~ Rudy A. Mazzocchi, award-winning author of The EQUITY Series
“Throughout the book Steve draws a crystal-clear image and does an Ivy League-quality analysis of the peculiar machinations of ‘the perpetual prisoner money machine’, as he has so accurately monikered the penal system in America. He conducted over 2,000 interviews of inmates and staff over several years during his chimera in prison, compiling a laser-accurate representation of prison life and experiences....
I recommend that I Should Have Stayed In Morocco be required reading for all collegians across America, for entrepreneurs young and old, and for everyone else who is interested in reading a great non-fiction story…”
~ Louis J. Terminello, Esq.
