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The Chickenshit Club why the Justice Department fails to prosecute executives

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. T...

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Main Author: Eisinger, Jesse (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2017.
Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Subjects:
Corporations > Corrupt practices > United States.
Corporation law > United States > Criminal provisions.
White collar crimes > United States.
Commercial crimes > United States.
Executives > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
Prosecution > United States.
Prosecution > Decision making.
Criminal justice, Administration of > Social aspects.
Table of Contents:
  • "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."

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