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When the FBI Raids Your Life: Inside a High-Stakes SEC Investigation with Dean Vagnozzi
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In this episode of Surviving-ISH, we sit down with financial veteran and author of Be a Lion, Dean Vagnozzi. For nearly 20 years, Dean ran a booming financial services business in the Philadelphia area—until a Tuesday morning in July 2020 when the SEC and a court-appointed receiver walked through his doors, froze all of his assets, and completely upended his life.
Dean opens up about the terrifying 72 hours where he lost his business, his life savings, and his reputation overnight, what it felt like to be abandoned by 22-year friendships over newspaper headlines, and how he…
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