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Big Money Crime Fraud and Politics in the Savings and Loan Crisis

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ISBN-10: 0520219473

ISBN-13: 9780520219472

Edition: 1997

Authors: Kitty Calavita, Henry N Pontell, Robert Tillman

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At a cost of $500 billion to American taxpayers, the savings and loan debacle of the 1980s was the worst financial crisis of the twentieth century as well as a crime unparalleled in American history. Yet the vast majority of its perpetrators will never be prosecuted, and those who were have received minimal sentences. In the first in-depth scrutiny of the ways and means of this disaster, this groundbreaking book comes to disturbing conclusions about the deliberate nature of this financial fraud, the political collusion involved, and the leniency of the criminal justice system in dealing with these "Gucci-clad white-collar criminals." Using material from over one hundred interviews with…    
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Book details

List price: $30.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 5/25/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 281
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English