Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S&l Industry

Name: Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S&l Industry
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ISBN: 9780292754188

ISBN-10: 0292754183

ISBN-13: 9780292754188

Edition: 2nd 2013

Authors: William K. Black

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In this expert insider’s account of the savings and loan debacle of the 1980s, William Black lays bare the strategies that corrupt CEOs and CFOs—in collusion with those who have regulatory oversight of their industries—use to defraud companies for their personal gain. Recounting the investigations he conducted as Director of Litigation for the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, Black fully reveals how Charles Keating and hundreds of other S&L owners took advantage of a weak regulatory environment to perpetrate accounting fraud on a massive scale. In the new afterword, he also authoritatively links the S&L crash to the business failures of 2008 and beyond, showing how CEOs then and now are using…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 9/15/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

William K. Black is Associate Professor of Economics and Law at the University of Missouri–Kansas City. His leadership role in investigating the S&L crisis has been widely praised. He recently helped the World Bank develop anticorruption initiatives and served as an expert for Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight in its enforcement action against Fannie Mae’s former senior management.