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Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Join Professor Randall D. Eliason of The George Washington University Law School for an in-depth investigation of how federal white-collar crime prosecutions work, and why they sometimes don2t. Over 24 lessons, learn how prosecutors pursue white-collar crimes, including fraud, bribery, obstruction of justice, extortion, perjury, money laundering, and more.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"There is an elite crime spree happening in America, and the privileged perps are getting away with it. Selling loose cigarettes on a city sidewalk can lead to a choke-hold arrest, and death, if you are not among the top 1%. But if you're rich and commit mail, wire, or bank fraud, embezzle pension funds, lie in court, obstruct justice, bribe a public official, launder money, or cheat on your taxes, you're likely to get off scot-free (or even win an...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In People vs. Donald Trump, Pomerantz tells the story of his unprecedented investigation, why he believes Donald Trump should be prosecuted, and what we can learn about the nature of justice in America from this extraordinary case. The investigation led him to believe that the former president's approach to business had much in common with the business practices of another well-known public figure--former mob boss John J. Gotti. Pomerantz has written...
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"An unprecedented plunge into New York City's federal court system that gives us a revelatory picture of how our justice system, and the pursuit of justice, really works. A young Italian Mafioso helps get rid of a body in Queens. In Manhattan, a hedge fund portfolio manager misrepresents his company's assets to investors. At JFK International Airport, a college student returns from Jamaica with cocaine stuffed in the handle of her suitcase. These...
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Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Annual supplement to West's Encyclopedia of American Law that updates and expands the content with new topics, updates, biographies of prominent figures and government appointees, and other features. Each year's edition contains the full U.S. Supreme Court docket in addition to the non-Supreme Court cases.
Series
Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Annual supplement to West's Encyclopedia of American Law that updates and expands the content with new topics, updates, biographies of prominent figures and government appointees, and other features. Each year's edition contains the full U.S. Supreme Court docket in addition to the non-Supreme Court cases.
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English
Description
"From the award-winning author of Station Eleven, a captivating novel of money, beauty, white-collar crime, ghosts, and moral compromise in which a woman disappears from a container ship off the coast of Mauritania and a massive Ponzi scheme implodes in New York, dragging countless fortunes with it"--
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"The acclaimed literary essayist T Kira Madden's raw and redemptive debut is a memoir about coming of age as a queer, biracial teenager within the fierce contradictions of Boca Raton, Florida, a place where cult-like privilege, shocking social and racial disparities, rampant white-collar crime, and powerfully destructive standards of beauty hide in plain sight. As a child in Florida, T Kira Madden lived a life of extravagance--from her exclusive private...
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English
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Louisiana businessman Jerry Earl Leland served only a fraction of his five-year sentence for white-collar crime, thanks to some political connections and a few greased palms. But he won't have long to enjoy his freedom. After Jerry Earl's early release, his wife, Margo--a much-married Garden District doyenne--throws an extravagant Get Out of Jail Free Party, complete with a Zydeco band, champagne ice luge, and waiters in ties and tails. The guest...
11) Role play
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Publisher
Dafina Books/Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Loving husband, doting father, respected politician. On the surface, California Governor Montgomery 'Monty' Fields appears to have it all--and he intends to keep it that way. But even a powerful man like Monty can't control everything or everyone . . .First Lady Ellaina 'Elle' Lockhart-Fields has a juicy secret. One that she's succeeded in keeping under wraps. Until her longtime lover shows up as her husband's top security officer and threatens to...
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Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In season two, the onetime outsider finds himself fully a part of this eclectic group of misfits all the while struggling with the knowledge that life exists beyond our world. Special Agent Alex Foster, a smart, dedicated FBI investigator who's on a mission to Beacon to track down fugitive CEO Jonathan Walsh for white-collar crime, but soon learns he harbors even greater secrets. The arrival of a new alien management on the spaceship complicates matters....
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English
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A multigenerational saga of two families, who rose from immigrant roots to the pinnacle of wealth and power, that tracks the unraveling of American democracy. In American Oligarchs, award-winning investigative journalist Andrea Bernstein tells the story of the Trump and Kushner families like never before. Their journey to the White House is a story of survival and loss, crime and betrayal, that stretches from the Klondike Gold Rush, through Nazi-occupied...
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