The Chickenshit Club : why the Justice Department fails to prosecute executives / Jesse Eisinger.
2018
KF9351 .E37 2018 (Mapit)
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Author
Title
The Chickenshit Club : why the Justice Department fails to prosecute executives / Jesse Eisinger.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster paperback edition.
Imprint
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2018.
Copyright
©2017
Description
xxi, 377 pages ; 24 cm
Formatted Contents Note
"There is no Christmas"
"That dog don't hunt"
The silver age
"Unitedly yours"
The backlash
Paul Pelletier's white whale
KPMG destroys careers
The hunt for AIG
No truth and no reconciliation
The law in the city of results
Jed Rakoff's radicalization
"The government failed"
A tollbooth on the bankster turnpike
The process is polluted
Rakoff's fall and rise
"Fight for it."
"That dog don't hunt"
The silver age
"Unitedly yours"
The backlash
Paul Pelletier's white whale
KPMG destroys careers
The hunt for AIG
No truth and no reconciliation
The law in the city of results
Jed Rakoff's radicalization
"The government failed"
A tollbooth on the bankster turnpike
The process is polluted
Rakoff's fall and rise
"Fight for it."
Summary
Why were no bankers put in prison after the financial crisis of 2008? Why do CEOs seem to commit wrongdoing with impunity? The problem goes beyond banks deemed "Too Big to Fail" to almost every large corporation in America -- to pharmaceutical companies and auto manufacturers and beyond. The Chickenshit Club -- an inside reference to prosecutors too scared of failure and too daunted by legal impediments to do their jobs -- explains why. A character-driven narrative, the book tells the story from inside the Department of Justice. The story spans the last decade and a half of prosecutorial fiascoes, corporate lobbying, trial losses, and culture shifts that have stripped the government of the will and ability to prosecute top corporate executives. Exposing one of the most important scandals of our time, this book provides an explanation as to how our Justice Department has come to avoid, bungle, and mismanage the fight to bring these alleged criminals to justice.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-357) and index.
Call Number
KF9351 .E37 2018
Language
English
ISBN
1501121375
9781501121371
9781501121371
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