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“Denial is the refusal to acknowledge the existence or severity of unpleasant external realities or internal thoughts and feelings.” – ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MENTAL DISORDERS xvii
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Page 4 and 5: Comments on The Crime of Our Time
Page 6: “Danny ranges wide over the polit
Page 9 and 10: THE CRIME OF OUR TIME WaS the econo
Page 12 and 13: Contents Preface By Larry Beinhart,
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Page 34 and 35: INTRODuCTION oUr tIMe anD fInanCIaL
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12 For years Madoff remained in the
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14 I said, “I’m making a film i
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16 When an investigator is a good a
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18 A debate about Madoff ’s own p
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20 larger financial crime wave that
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22 “Already at this stage it is p
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24 Many of the experts the magazine
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26 Writing in the New York Times, F
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CHAPTER 2 THE wHiTE-cOllAr prisON g
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CHAPTER 3 THE criMEs OF wAll sTrEET
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33 David Russell who worked on Wall
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35 package of financial reforms and
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37 of regulation, not criminality.
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39 way: “When we think of regular
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no one close to me with whom I coul
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CHAPTER 4 THE criMiNAl MiND 43 In t
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45 artists will do anything to keep
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e prosecuted for being stupid. So a
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CHAPTER 5 THE criME AT THE HEArT OF
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51 offenders themselves are not alw
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54 reflects woefully bad disclosure
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56 in residential real estate, whic
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58 and the people who commit it. Bu
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60 What questions does the commissi
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62 would do that without a lot of o
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64 revenues. That’s the division,
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66 ous investigation of Goldman? Pr
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68 these high-cost loans represente
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70 Later, the FBI would cite massiv
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72 (a) False accounting entries; (b
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74 financial crisis. A surprising o
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76 Short-Sale Schemes: Short-sale s
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78 The horrendous damage done to in
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80 their agreed-upon return without
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CHAPTER 9 THE VicTiMs ArE EVErYwHEr
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85 one point it perforates the whol
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CHAPTER 10 wiTNEssEs FOr THE prOsEc
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The first ingredient of the crisis
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92 “The biggest crime on the Amer
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94 Pons. “The second period (secu
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96 lying anyone, including their ow
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98 ed on the White Collar crime blo
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100 There are more cases than I can
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102 how this worked: “Well, if yo
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104 frankly, the product of conflic
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CHAPTER 13 CO-CONSPIRATORS: THE ROL
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109 coming. He noted, “It’s an
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111 problem,’ words he ended up e
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113 lions and now are writing it al
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115 cial journalists should be more
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CHAPTER 14 WARNINGS IGNORED 117 It
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119 Congress that this should be se
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pening wrong? That you won’t, tha
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123 debts that had been accumulated
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126 Much of the media missed the ev
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128 learned that when I spoke at le
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130 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12 - BEAR SHAR
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132 share price. They were betting
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134 Bamber reveals that it was not
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136 stature and this whatever was g
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138 That is just one of many good q
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CHAPTER 16 THE LEHMAN LIQUIDATION 1
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143 Alan Blinder, a former Federal
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145 the failure of Lehman Brothers
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147 Housing Bubble blog, http://www
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149 tual 150 billion dollars for th
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151 worse. The Business and Media i
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CHAPTER 17 ARE OUR MARKETS MANIPULA
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155 2007. Stefano Battiston and Jam
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(1) the major issues raised by the
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159 who ran the War for the Iraqi F
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161 a former Working Group staff me
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“The bank has raised the possibil
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165 Democratic Congresswoman Marci
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didn’t ask what was going on - th
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170 morality confrontation that he
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172 One sex website noted, “It’
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174 “A lot of people skate on the
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CHAPTER 19 THE ROLE OF REGULATORS A
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179 islation that the panel helped
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181 cans were betrayed, and we are
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10. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac expa
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185 lobbying: GM ($50.4 billion in
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187 executives are Obama’s bundle
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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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