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STEWART: But isn’t that financial reporting? What do you think is the role of CNBC? . . . CRAMER: I didn’t think that Bear Stearns would evaporate overnight. I knew the people who ran it. I thought they were honest. That was my mistake. I really did. I thought they were honest. 139
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Comments on The Crime of Our Time
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“Danny ranges wide over the polit
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THE CRIME OF OUR TIME WaS the econo
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Contents Preface By Larry Beinhart,
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PrefaCe By Larry Beinhart Dear Pros
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Boesky accepted a plea bargain. Thr
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MUsICaL PrefaCe/ soUnD traCK Plunde
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“Denial is the refusal to acknowl
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xx lies losing their homes. After a
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xxii analysis. There may be journo-
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xxiv “The investigation is the la
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xxvi then so clearly an economic bo
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xxviii I was well aware of all the
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xxx Special thanks to ColdType.net
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xxxii offs have taken a heavy toll
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xxxiv of failures were cited - a fa
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xxxvi borrowers would not be able t
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xxxviii any illusion that public or
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xl eclipses the S&L debacle in term
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xlii The requirement of a liquid fi
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xliv • This environment was enabl
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xlvi fundraiser, “This is an impr
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xlviii But there were many who saw
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l Commenting in the Atlantic magazi
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lii white-collar criminals build ar
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liv wrong doers are to be brought t
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CHAPTER 1 THE MADOFF MOMENT BEFORE:
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the SEC’s Division of Enforcement
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sands of clients had $65 billion. B
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‘How am I supposed to find the se
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Noting that “for decades, Mrs. Ma
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11 And what about the victims? What
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13 kerage called Cohmad) was a “p
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15 In early September 2009, the SEC
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in which we took them, along with h
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19 These suggestions may or may not
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21 ber #3 was Norman Schmidt who ra
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23 in this case, I would suspect th
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violent and physical crimes. If som
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about them, namely investigations a
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30 Times’ Gillian Tett worries th
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32 Over 730,000 counts of suspected
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34 didn’t think that they, how co
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36 So there you have it - the same
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38 The victims of corporate crimina
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40 attracted a slew of illustrious
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42 use the “borrowed” money to
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44 inside deals, require less artis
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46 “Because we measure the effect
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48 White House is not going to be t
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50 it; so they set it up, not as a
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CHAPTER 6 wHO sHOulD bE prOsEcuTED?
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ecause of a failure of a number of
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state, in the grip of the early-Rea
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CHAPTER 7 iNVEsTigATiNg FiNANciAl c
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estimate the strength of hostile el
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former executives running the feder
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As readers know, I have stated many
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CHAPTER 8 cOuNT 1: prEDATOrY subpri
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I interviewed him at length. He is
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In the November 2006 study we expla
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They write: 73 Those who are allege
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75 fact, mechanically more interest
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General Andrew Cuomo labels as a sc
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79 It is hard not to feel that her
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81 Research Service Report in Augus
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84 a little piece of the layer of a
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86 A former Vice President of Stand
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Page 202 and 203: 143 Alan Blinder, a former Federal
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189 Guantanamo torturers and the hi
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191 with other people’s money. Th
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CHAPTER 20 JUDGMENT DAY 193 Just as
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195 ing plunder of resources is if
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197 dent regulatory body must prote
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199 products are supposed to. Even
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201 could have gotten together and
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203 tem are saying there was “no
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US President Barack Obama spoke of
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207 Plunder: the Crime of Our Time,
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EPILOGUE 209 I began this book with
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THE AUTHOR Danny SchEchtEr News Dis
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Other Works by the author BOOkS 200
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1979 Producer, The Joe Oteri Show (
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