Richard D. Bailey is a finance and restructuring executive and the author of Pirate Cove, the insider’s account of the Southport Lane scandal. He also writes opinion essays on accountability in business and public life, and speaks to audiences about making decisions under fire.
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01 — The book
Pirate Cove.
How a hired CEO followed the money inside Southport Lane — and ended up wearing a wire for the FBI.
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02 — The essays
One set of rules.
Opinion writing on corporate governance, fraud, and whether the rules really apply to everyone.
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03 — Speaking
Raw, real, relevant.
Keynotes, book talks and panels on spotting fraud and making decisions when the odds are stacked against you.
Maybe. Maybe not. But I did.
A fake Caravaggio, a bogus Yale degree, a self-proclaimed genius in his twenties — and the insurance money that paid for it all. Pirate Cove is the insider’s account of how the Southport Lane fraud was built, and how it came apart.
Résumé at a glance
He takes on the problems no one else will touch.
For more than thirty years Bailey has been brought in to fix distressed companies — from steel to semiconductors to a Long Island winery group — and has repeatedly found the governance, accounting and regulatory failures that are often the first clues of something worse.
View full résumé →30+
years in finance, turnarounds and restructuring
$350M
insurance fraud he helped expose
2014–19
working with the FBI, through indictments and guilty pleas
Providence · Fairfield
BA, Providence College · MA, Fairfield University
Conferences, fraud-examiner and compliance chapters, business schools, book clubs and podcasts. Keynotes, fireside chats and book talks — in person or virtual.