Alexander Cooper - Summary of Red Notice: by Bill Browders--A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Mans Fight for Justice--A Comprehensive Summary

Bill Browder

Author, founder and CEO of Hermitage CapitalManagement, human rights activist, husband, father of three

Sergei Magnitsky

Tax lawyer who works at Firestone Duncan.Discovers theft of $230 million in fraudulent tax rebates byRussian officials. Imprisoned, tortured, and killed after refusingto recant his testimony

Vadim Kleiner

Head of research at HermitageCapital Management

EduardKhayretdinov

Criminal lawyer who defends Ivan Cherkasovagainst fraudulent charges

Elena MolokovaBrowder

Bill Browders wife

Aslan

Code name of Vadims informant inside the FSB

Ivan Cherkasov

Chief Operating Officer at Hermitage CapitalManagement

VladimirPastukhov

Moscow attorney who files legal complaintsagainst Interior Ministry

Kyle Parker

U.S. Helsinki Commission staffer who convincesSenator Cardin to sponsor the Magnitsky Act

Edmond Safra

Bills mentor and Bills business partner

Beny Steinmetz

Bills first investor

Vladimir Putin

Russian President

Dmitry Medvedev

Russian Prime Minister

Artem Kuznetsov

Lieutenant Colonel in Russias InteriorMinistry

Major PavelKarpov

Investigator in Russias Interior Ministry

Oleg Silchenko

Investigator in Russias Interior Ministry whoallegedly has Sergei arrested, denies him medical treatment, andorders his torture

Chapter byChapter Summary of Bill Browders RedNotice

Bill Browder is uneasyas he flies into Sheremetyevo Airport after reading about JudeShao, a Chinese-American billionaire sentenced to 16 years in aChinese prison on fabricated tax evasion charges (Browder, 2015).Bill has $7,500 in bribe money in his briefcase, just in case heneeds to leave Russia quickly. He shifts his attention from Shao'sstorey to the money, hesitating as he admits that he has foughtRussian oligarchs and made a number of enemies.

He sits in the VIP lounge after landing,waiting for his luggage and Alexei, his driver. Officers draggedhim to a holding area an hour later and held him for 15 hourswithout food, water, or any reason for why he was detained. As twoofficers grab Bill, drag him out through a jetway, and position himon the next plane back to London, tensions grow. Bill's futurenarrow escape from the clutches of corrupt government officials isforeshadowed in this chapter.

Browder recalls hisfamily history in this chapter. He mentions his grandfather Earl,who rose to become the leader of the American Communist Party andstood for President of the United States in 1936 and 1940. SenatorMcCarthy allegedly harassed Earl in the 1950s, according to Bill.Bill's father, Felix, is blackballed because he is the son of aCommunist. When he applies for a job as a math professor atBrandeis University, Eleanor Roosevelt, the university's Chairwomanof the Board of Trustees, persuades her colleagues to recruit him.In 1999, Felix Browder was awarded the National Medal of Science.

Bill addresses hisschool years, including his academic probation at the University ofColorado-Boulder. He changes his ways, starts to study, and in twoyears moves to the University of Chicago. He gets a two-year job atBain and Company after graduation to help him prepare for graduateschool at Stanford University. He meets Ken Hersh, the future CEOof Natural Gas Partners, at Stanford. Chip and Winthrop are thenicknames they come up with.

After Stanford, Browder is recruited by theBoston Consulting Group in Chicago, where he requests to work inEastern Europe. They position him in London with John Lundquist, anauthority on Eastern Europe.