The E-Sylum:  Volume 6, Number 30, July 27, 2003, Article 10

MCNALL IS BACK

  Long out of circulation as a guest of the federal penitentiary
  system, former high-flying coin dealer Bruce McNall is back
  in the news, this time peddling a book on his escapades as
  a coin dealer, movie producer, hockey team owner, bank
  defrauder and inmate.

  From a review in the Toronto Star:  "Back when McNall was
  14, he took a part-time job as a clerk in a coin and stamp shop.
  With seemingly lightning speed, he could distinguish a sestertius
  from a denarius, and, borrowing $3,000 from his grandmother,
  he bought a tray of coins from a vet who walked into the shop.
  He sold the coins, repaid his granny and ended up with more
  than $10,000 in profit. He was still in high school."

   A July 19th Reuters article noted:
  "In the 1980s and early 1990s, McNall was a major
  Hollywood player. He leveraged his first fortune as a
  dealer in rare coins into producing movies such as
  "WarGames" and "Mr. Mom," and he bought the Los
  Angeles Kings professional hockey team.

  McNall, now 53, accomplished what many thought to be
  the impossible and lured hockey legend Wayne Gretzky
  from Canada to Los Angeles, gave advice to Walt Disney
  Co. chief Michael Eisner, counted Michael J. Fox and Jim
  Belushi among his friends and hosted dinners for Ronald
  and Nancy Reagan.

  It was, as McNall titled his new book that landed in retail
  stores this week, "Fun While it Lasted."

  "In the early 1990s, he came under suspicion of defrauding
  banks out of more than $200 million. He eventually pleaded
  guilty and in 1997, began serving a 70-month sentence in
  federal prison.

  http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=3119537

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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