Barry Minkow turned a teenage carpet-cleaning business into ZZZZ Best, a publicly traded company valued at more than $300 ...
A 22-year-old businessman pleaded guilty over a massive investment fraud that made his carpet-cleaning business worth hundreds of millions of dollars on December 14, 1988. Barry Minkow started ZZZZ ...
Minkow gained national attention as a teenager in the 1980s by founding the ZZZZ Best carpet cleaning company in Southern California. At age 21, he became the youngest person at the time in U.S.
Editor’s Note: The online version of this story includes information that was inadvertently omitted from the print version. It also corrects the year Minkow was released from prison, which was 1995.