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Book · Available on Amazon Kindle · 2026
Lied to Death: The Global Corporate Mafia
Seven years inside the room. Six months outside the empire. One month following the money.
From the Savings and Loan crisis to the GENIUS Act — how the same playbook keeps getting run, and why the people being bombed are now involuntarily financing the bombs through their own savings.
Part memoir. Part investigation. Part indictment.
This book connects four decades of institutional capture into one narrative: the S&L crisis of the 1980s, the Iraq War lies, the 2008 mortgage derivative scam, and now the privatization of the dollar through stablecoins, tokenization, and a war that funds itself. The architecture changes. The playbook doesn't. The difference this time is scale — and the receipts are public.
"The danger isn't the lie. It's the system that makes the lie unnecessary."
— Daniel Ellsberg, in conversation with the author, 2015
Prologue
- • The Muhammad Ali of Whistleblowers — Daniel Ellsberg's home, May 2015. 10 days, 40 hours.
Act I — The Wars Nobody Sees
- 1 Operation Epic Fury — $891 million daily, 200-to-1 cost asymmetry
- 2 15 Fronts, Zero Votes — Seven votes that decided whether the Constitution applies
- 3 The Human Cost — 72,000 dead in Gaza, black rain on Tehran, 1,100 children
- 4 Netanyahu's 40-Year War — From "3-5 years from a bomb" in 1992 to permanent war
Act II — The Machines Nobody Understands
- 5 Follow the Money — S&L crisis to GENIUS Act. The same playbook, different architecture.
- 6 The Tokenization Ledger — How programmable money creates a permanent war machine
- 7 The Death Spiral — $1.04T in interest exceeds the defense budget for the first time
- 8 The Global Corporate Mafia — BlackRock, Vanguard, $30T+ and the revolving door
Act III — The Future Nobody Voted For
- 9 The AI War Machine — Palantir, 1,000 targets in 24 hours, the stock price as war index
- 10 The Buried Accountability — Epstein files dropped as bombs fell. Todd Blanche installed as AG.
- 11 AIPAC and the Purchase of War Powers — $100M buys the consensus
- 12 The Saturday Night Massacre with a Blockchain — Trump fires his AG, installs his own lawyer
- 13 The Tokenized Battlefield — Witkoff's son tokenizes the oil his father's negotiations destabilize
- 14 The Nuclear Dimension — Ellsberg, Galbraith, Shiller, Lewis. The synthesis.
- 15 How the Big Grift Funds Endless War — The six-step loop. Treasury bonds → stablecoins → yield → lobbying → war → repeat.
- 16 Epstein Started This — From BCCI and Iran-Contra to the GENIUS Act. The 40-year origin story of the architecture.
Epilogue
- • What I Am Doing About It
Chapters are publishing as they're completed. The investigation is ongoing. The architecture is still running.
Read the Full Manuscript
130,000+ words. Memoir foundation, Preface, Prologue, three Acts, seventeen chapters, Epilogue. Includes the complete Epstein-to-GENIUS Act origin story, the IRGC toll system receipts, the Thiel/Palantir/Anduril network map, the Netanyahu Situation Room leak, and the 16-for-16 insider trading documentation. Updated through April 9, 2026.
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Arn Menconi is a former two-term County Commissioner, MBA (University of Denver, 1996), founder of
SOS Outreach, and investigative journalist. He interviewed Daniel Ellsberg for 40 hours in 2015 and helped write the coursework for the History of Terrorism at the University of Salamanca with former CIA officer John Kiriakou. Contact:
arn@arnmenconi.com