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Author Eisinger, Jesse, author.

Title The Chickenshit Club : why the Justice Department fails to prosecute executives / Jesse Eisinger.

Publication Info. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2017.
©2017

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  KF935 .E37 2017    Available  ---
Edition First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Description xxi, 377 pages ; 24 cm
age Children
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-357) and index.
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."
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.
Subject United States. Department of Justice.
United States. Department of Justice.
Corporations -- Corrupt practices -- United States.
Corporations -- Corrupt practices.
United States.
Corporation law -- United States -- Criminal provisions.
Corporation law.
White collar crimes -- United States.
White collar crimes.
Commercial crimes -- United States.
Commercial crimes.
Executives -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.
Executives -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Prosecution -- United States.
Prosecution.
Prosecution -- Decision making.
Prosecution -- Decision making.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Social aspects.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Social aspects.
Criminal justice, Administration of.
Corporation law -- Criminal provisions.
Corporations -- Corrupt practices -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
Corporations -- United States -- Corrupt practices.
Added Title Why the Justice Department fails to prosecute executives
Chicken Shit Club
ISBN 9781501121364 (hardcover)
1501121367 (hardcover)
9781501121388 (ebook)
1501121383 (ebook)