What Is Real: The Life and Crimes of Darnell Riley
What Is Real: The Life and Crimes of Darnell Riley
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Author: Riley Perez
Publisher: Rare Bird Books, a Barnacle Book
Published: 08/14/2018
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781947856264
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2018
About the Author
Raised in L.A by his grandfather who instilled in him his Jewish faith, Riley was a multi sport athlete who gravitated to boxing. His passion for the sport took him from the comfort of his Hancock Park neighborhood to train at gyms around L.A, eventually settling at Broadway Gym in South Central where he trained under Bill Slayton. The combination of being a straight A student and the first rate education on the L.A streets caught the attention of Robert Puggy Zeichick, one half of a Jewish-Italian bookmaking team. Riley started doing pick-ups and quickly graduated to felonious capers. After a stint in juvenile reform school, Riley resumed his gambling association, which had grown to working for Matthew Matty the Horse Ianniello. He balanced his bookmaking business with his travels as an employee for TWA. Briefly, Riley settled on University studies in Germany, but returned to LA full time after capitalizing on the tech boom of the 90s in part by day trading stocks and then creating software that he licensed to Washington Mutual Bank, a company he worked for, which allowed him a solid foundational understanding of banking regulations, that he took with him into his online gaming ventures.