Real estate, transit, oil — how early L.A. built fortunes and bred scoundrels

Take L.A. oilman C.C. Julian, who oversold oil stock and left people destitute and dead. Or Simon Homburg, who flipped sheer mountain lots to unwitting out-of-towners.

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