Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
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Category : Bank failures
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Problems of the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, (FSLIC): January 31, February 2, 7, and 9, 1989
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
Publisher:
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Category : Bank failures
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bank failures
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Problems of the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, (FSLIC)
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
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Category : Banking law
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Banking law
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Problems of the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, (FSLIC): January 31, February 2, 7, and 9, 1989
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
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Category : Bank failures
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Bank failures
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Big Money Crime
Author: Kitty Calavita
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520923232
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
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 government officials and industry leaders and recently declassified documents, the authors show how—contrary to previous government and "expert" explanations that chalked the disaster up to business risks gone awry or adverse economic conditions—S&L leaders engaged in deliberate fraud, stealing from their own corporations to speculate on high-risk ventures. Tempted by the insurance net, perpetrators looted their own institutions in a new kind of white-collar crime the authors dub "collective embezzlement." Big Money Crime also demonstrates how systematic political collusion—not just policy errors—was a critical ingredient in this unprecedented series of frauds. Bringing together statistics from a variety of government agencies, the authors provide a close reading of the track record of prosecutions and sentencing and find that "suite crime" receives much more lenient treatment than "street crime," despite its significantly higher price tag. The book concludes with a number of modest, but no less urgent, policy recommendations to counter the current deregulatory trend and to avert a replay of the S&L debacle in other financial sectors. FROM THE BOOK:"We built thick walls; we have cameras; we have time clocks on the vaults . . . all these controls were to protect against somebody stealing the cash. Well, you can steal far more money, and take it out the back door. The best way to rob a bank is to own one."—House Committee on Government Operations, 1988
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520923232
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
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 government officials and industry leaders and recently declassified documents, the authors show how—contrary to previous government and "expert" explanations that chalked the disaster up to business risks gone awry or adverse economic conditions—S&L leaders engaged in deliberate fraud, stealing from their own corporations to speculate on high-risk ventures. Tempted by the insurance net, perpetrators looted their own institutions in a new kind of white-collar crime the authors dub "collective embezzlement." Big Money Crime also demonstrates how systematic political collusion—not just policy errors—was a critical ingredient in this unprecedented series of frauds. Bringing together statistics from a variety of government agencies, the authors provide a close reading of the track record of prosecutions and sentencing and find that "suite crime" receives much more lenient treatment than "street crime," despite its significantly higher price tag. The book concludes with a number of modest, but no less urgent, policy recommendations to counter the current deregulatory trend and to avert a replay of the S&L debacle in other financial sectors. FROM THE BOOK:"We built thick walls; we have cameras; we have time clocks on the vaults . . . all these controls were to protect against somebody stealing the cash. Well, you can steal far more money, and take it out the back door. The best way to rob a bank is to own one."—House Committee on Government Operations, 1988
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1240
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Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1240
Book Description
Problems of the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, (FSLIC): January 31, February 2, 7, and 9, 1989
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
Publisher:
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Category : Bank failures
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bank failures
Languages : en
Pages :
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CIS Annual
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 984
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 984
Book Description
CIS Index to Publications of the United States Congress
Author: Congressional Information Service
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Policy Studies Review
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Some vols. include special issues
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Some vols. include special issues