Stolen Without a Gun Summary

Stolen Without A Gun

Walt Pavlo began working for MCI in 1992 as a manager in the Financial Services Unit. Pavlo began as a young, naïve businessman who seemed to think everything in the business world was smooth sailing and ethical. It wouldn’t take him long to see this was not the case for every business. Ralph McCumber was Pavlo’s boss at MCI and Pavlo soon became his go-to guy. The longer Pavlo works for MCI the more he finds out about the shenanigans that are going on there. The business world was turning out to be a little different than he originally thought.

When McCumber quit his job it left a lot of pressure on Pavlo. He soon became entrapped in a world of finding ways to hide the mountain of debt MCI was building. Pavlo believed it was ok by developing an “everyone else is doing it” attitude. He befriends Harold Mann, a colorful scam artist, and becomes intrigued with his lifestyle. The two soon come up with their own scheme to get rich quick all the while making the debt at MCI disappear.

With the money flowing in and MCI’s debt disappearing Walt Pavlo is living the life. He has no worries and believes what he is doing is, for the most part, ok. He quickly drags into the scheme Sean Hennessy and James Wilkie, friends of Pavlo at MCI. The four of them are vacationing all the time, driving new cars, and spoiling their families with expensive gifts. Eventually Pavlo begins feeling the stress and guilt from all the embezzlement and lying he is doing. He begins to seek a way out of his mess once the accounting department at MCI starts raising suspicion and questions the debt being erased. This signals the demise of Pavlo’s scam and fancy living.

Eventually, everything finally catches up to Pavlo and his accomplice’s. Their downfall began with the accounting department and quickly climbed through the ranks. The FBI and government became involved and there was no escape. Wilkie and Hennessy took the easy way out and told everything that happened...