Once upon a time Alan Bond was a hero - the man who won the America’s Cup for Australia, the poor immigrant turned songwriter who became a billionaire, then Aussie battler made good.
Then came a controversial expose by Paul Barry on ABC TV’s Four Corners. This explosive portrait of Bond and his business empire led to Barry’s bestselling Rise and Fall of Alan Bond. Soon afterwards, Bond’s house of cards collapsed, Bond was made bankrupt, and then sent to jail.
Ten years later Alan Bond is back - but so is Paul Barry. After serving less than three and a half years of his sentence for defrauding Bell Resources of more than $1200 million, Bond was released in March 2000 - just in time to read Paul Barry’s exclusive front page story that he had smuggled millions of dollars back into Australia.
In Going for Broke Barry shows how Bond stashed his fortune overseas, and proves that if your pockets are deep enough and your lawyers good enough, you can get away with almost anything - as long as you go for broke.
