Book World: All the wrongs of all the right people in D.C.
Ron Charles, The Washington Post
May 25, 2021
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By Christina McDowell
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Christina McDowell was used to getting extraordinary gifts from her father, Washington lawyer Thomas Prousalis Jr. To celebrate her graduation from high school, she got a BMW. One Christmas morning, he gave her a Hermés Birkin bag. And then there was that time McDowell discovered Dad had given her $100,000 in credit card debt.
McDowell wanted to ask him about that little problem, but she didn t know exactly where her father was, only that he would soon be assigned to a federal prison to serve a 57-month sentence for securities fraud. He was a convicted associate of Jordan Belfort, whom Leonardo DiCaprio portrayed in The Wolf of Wall Street.