To me the terrifying part is it nearly worked: "Eventually they controlled 10,000 of the 45,000 shares needed for controlling interest in the bank, but publici

To me the terrifying part is it nearly worked: "Eventually they controlled 10,000 of the 45,000 shares needed for controlling interest in the bank, but publicity led Bandeira to ease off the purchases even as he sent Reis ever more inflated false reports of the number of shares they had acquired."