The Chickenshit Club

From Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Jesse Eisinger, a blistering account of corporate greed and impunity, and the reckless, often anemic response from the Department of Justice.
The effects of the 2008 financial crisis resulted in catastrophic losses of income, jobs, and home and stock values. Almost ten years later, the crisis is still forcing governments and local municipalities to stretch their budgets beyond acceptable limits. The repercussions have bled into every facet of our lives. Ordinary Americans have had to absorb the effects of a small number of crooked banking executives' avarice. Yet, eight years later, not a single high-level corporate executive has faced criminal prosecution.
Eisinger offers a look at the spate of 1990s/early aughts scandals such as Enron, WorldCom, and Tyco, putting names and faces to the well-financed, shrewd executives and the overmatched, underfunded federal prosecutors charged with bringing them to justice. The...