Early Life
Born in the New York suburbs, Lawrence Hartman showed early promise that would eventually lead him to the pinnacle of American success—and its darkest depths.
The Man Behind the Story
About the Author
Lawrence Hartman
Lawrence Hartman has lived the kind of life that demands to be written about—and he's done exactly that.
Author of BLIND GREED: From Ivy League to International Fugitive, BLIND JUSTICE: The Consequences of Greed, GUILTY TILL PROVEN INNOCENT: A Shocking Inside View Into America's Failing Justice System, THE HAPPINESS PRINCIPLE, and THE WEALTH FORMULA (featuring Ross Mandell), Hartman writes with unflinching honesty born from extraordinary experience. As senior writer and editor for InRecovery Magazine, and through features on Nancy Grace, Forbes, and top-tier podcasts, his voice has reached audiences hungry for truth told without filter.
Education & Family
Graduated from Columbia University School of Law, where he wrote for and edited the prestigious Columbia Business Law Review—laying the foundation for a career built on the razor's edge of the law.
Wall Street Career
Climbed the ladder at elite Wall Street firms while nurturing his creative spirit—writing and producing the off-Broadway play "Seeing Double," which starred NFL icon Tiki Barber and the Double Down Twins from the cult classic "Swingers."
Rise in High Finance
Became Vice President and General Counsel of a publicly traded real estate company, publishing groundbreaking articles in the Real Estate Finance Review. This catapulted him into high finance, where he founded an offshore hedge fund and architected business strategies for over a dozen public companies.
Downfall & Indictment
Then came the fall: a 36-count indictment that dominated Central American headlines for an entire week.
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Prison Transformation & Writing
During his 10-year sentence, Hartman became a modern-day Shawshank Redemption figure—a jailhouse lawyer fighting for dozens of desperate inmates while transforming his cell into a crucible of creativity. There, he forged multiple books from the raw material of his shattered dreams and hard-won wisdom, emerging not broken, but reborn as a writer with something vital to say.
"Emerging not broken, but reborn as a writer with something vital to say."