It starts at home
A farming family in West Point, Nebraska. A father, a signature, and a question nobody would answer. Before any of this was a book, it was a son trying to understand what happened.
A gripping, real-life story of power, money, and deception. This investigative non-fiction trilogy uncovers the dark side of Warren Buffett's empire — from stolen identity and money laundering to fraud, murder, and RICO.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Warren Buffett's Dirty Laundry is a whistleblower's account — written by the man who lived it. For five years Clark Bettenhausen was pulled inside a world of federal attorneys, paperwork and silent money, and watched an ordinary Nebraska family collide with one of the most admired financial empires on earth.
What began as a question about a father became a paper trail: stolen identity, laundered money, fraud, and a pattern of conduct the author lays out chapter by chapter. This is not a business book. It is a true-crime exposé told from inside the fire.
THE PAPER TRAIL
A farming family in West Point, Nebraska. A father, a signature, and a question nobody would answer. Before any of this was a book, it was a son trying to understand what happened.
Forced to play Federal Attorney in Omaha for half a decade, the author learned the paperwork from the inside — the filings, the delays, and the doors that quietly closed.
Accounts, shells and signatures. Clean capital braided into dirty capital until the two could not be told apart — traced in the book step by step, transfer by transfer.
What looked like isolated events turned out to be a pattern. The trilogy lays that pattern out in the language the law uses for it: fraud, and RICO.
He left his state permanently to protect himself from the people who do not want this story told. Then he sat down and wrote all three volumes of it.
INSIDE THE STORY
A name, a signature and a life used without consent — and the paperwork that proves it.
01How clean capital and dirty capital were braided together, account by account.
02Patterns, not accidents — the racketeering framework the author walks the reader through.
03Five years playing Federal Attorney in Omaha, Nebraska — and what that cost.
04Why a farmer, machinist and welder from West Point left his state — permanently.
05Behind the headlines: a family, a farm, a father, and the question “Why Dad?”
06THE EVIDENCE WALL
Every chapter is anchored to something you can look at — a filing, a headline, a transfer, a place on a map. Here is a glimpse of the world the trilogy walks through.










THE COLLECTION
Read in order. Each volume carries the trail further — from the first missing signature to the full shape of the empire.
AVAILABLEThe stolen identity, the first documents, and the day an ordinary family stepped into an empire's shadow.
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COMING SOONThe money moves. Accounts, shells and signatures — the laundering machine traced step by step.
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COMING SOONFraud, RICO and the reckoning — the whistleblower's final account of what he saw and survived.
Get notified →Warren Buffett's Dirty Laundry is a captivating whistleblower non-fiction trilogy about one man and his empire.— Clark Bettenhausen
READER REVIEWS
“I could not put it down. It reads like a thriller, except every page is someone's real life. The documents are what stayed with me.”
“A brave, uncomfortable book. Bettenhausen writes like a man who has nothing left to lose and everything left to say.”
“True crime fans, this one is different — the author is the witness. I finished Book I in two nights and I am waiting on Book II.”
GET THE BOOK
Book I of the investigative true-crime trilogy is available now in paperback and eBook.
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CONTACT
For orders, interviews, press enquiries, podcast bookings or speaking requests — send a message and Clark will reply personally.