Back in 2012, Bill Grizack was working as a top strategist at Winston-Salem’s Pave (aka The Variable). But he badly wanted to be a partner–and in order to get that bump, he needed to invest six figures in the agency or bring in half a million dollars’ worth of new business. Instead, he chose to fake it.
Grizack somehow convinced executives that he had won the business of Coca-Cola, Brown-Forman and other clients to the tune of more than $269 million via fake emails, faked phone calls, and contracts that he drew up himself.
