Have you ever looked at Wall Street today and wondered how it transformed into a heavily regulated institution? It is easy to assume that oversight has always been there, but the road to modern financial compliance was paved with jaw-dropping betrayals. Take a journey back to the late 1930s, and you will find a seismic event that changed American finance forever: the Richard Whitney Scandal. It is a story that proves that no matter how elite or untouchable someone seems, greed and bad habits can bring down an empire—much like how historical figures had to rethink their entire approaches to wealth, governance, and stability, as seen when exploring how the…