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Stephen Keller

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in Lexington, The United States

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Crime, Business, Memoir

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Stephen L. Keller is a pioneering entrepreneur, whose real-life story reads like a corporate thriller, marked by ambition, disruption, and dramatic downfall.

Keller: "I was having lunch in the White House on Monday, Friday my company was being raided by 100 armed FBI agents."

At just 27 years old, Keller founded Kelco, a financial firm that revolutionized the life insurance market by introducing Life settlements, offering terminally ill patients and seniors, an unprecedented way to access their life insurance benefits.

By 1998, Keller launched the first-ever securitized bundles of life insurance
policies on the NYSE and captured 65% of the global life settlements market: now a $30 billion annual industry.
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Pay to Play

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