X’s voice reminded me of smooth jazz: completely nonthreatening, no sharp notes, rhythmic… like a metronome? No, more like a pendulum. Xavier… “People call me X,” he said by way of introduction, in a soothing voice with an easy smile. I can’t even remember the first time I met him - at one of the dozen-plus clean energy conferences, summits, lectures, and events I attended as a grad student. One of them was a charismatic young solar energy entrepreneur who came on like a trance. Then, when the Great Recession hit, I scored a debt-free ticket to graduate school in Sin City.Īs a master’s student in history at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, I got to know a lot of interesting people while working on my thesis on the history of solar energy. I’m not a PI, although I briefly worked as one before spending a few years doing award-winning investigative journalism while hustling odd jobs in California. I hope this excerpt whets your appetite for the rest of the story! -JR Excerpt: Cleantech Con Artists: A True Vegas Caper My book is 100% true and a whole lot of fun: a man-bites-dog scavenger hunt about a bunch of white-collar criminals I discovered, then hunted down, learning as I went. By Jim Rossi In this excerpt, author Jim Rossi meets a charismatic conman working the Las Vegas startup circuit, and he devises a plan to unmask him.
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