Over seven years, aided by a handful of short-sellers and carefully cultivated whistleblowers, he pieced together a picture of a firm built on fraud, with fake customers, invented profits and cash balances that looked flimsier the closer you got.

七年来，在少数卖空者和精心培养的告密者的帮助下，他拼凑出一家建立在欺诈基础上的公司， 拥有虚假客户， 虚构的利润和现金余额， 离得越近，看起来就越脆弱。