{"id":1517,"date":"2014-12-20T09:10:41","date_gmt":"2014-12-20T14:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/?p=1517"},"modified":"2014-12-20T09:10:41","modified_gmt":"2014-12-20T14:10:41","slug":"top-corporate-crime-books-of-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/?p=1517","title":{"rendered":"Top Corporate Crime Books of 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Corporate Crime Reporter released today it\u2019s Top Ten Corporate Crime Books of 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTogether, these books give a clear snapshot of corporate crime in America today,\u201d said Russell Mokhiber, editor of Corporate Crime Reporter, a legal newsletter based in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/whynotjail.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1518\" title=\"whynotjail\" src=\"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/whynotjail.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"222\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Top Ten Corporate Crime Books of 2014 are (alphabetically by author):<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In Bed with Wall Street: The Conspiracy Crippling Our Global Economy by Larry Doyle (Palgrave MacMillan)<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Too Big to Jail: How Prosecutors Compromise with Corporations by Brandon Garrett (Harvard University Press)<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Stealing America&#8217;s Future: How For-Profit Colleges Scam Taxpayers and Ruin Students&#8217; Lives by David Halperin (Kindle Book)<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Price of Justice: A True Story of Greed and Corruption by Laurence Leamer (Times Books)<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Firestone and the Warlord by T. Christian Miller (Kindle Book)<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Watchdog That Didn&#8217;t Bark: The Financial Crisis and the Disappearance of Investigative Journalism by Dean Starkman (Columbia Journalism Review Books)<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Why Not Jail?: Industrial Catastrophes, Corporate Malfeasance, and Government Inaction by Rena Steinzor (Cambridge University Press)<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap by Matt Taibbi (Spiegel &amp; Grau)<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin&#8217;s Snuff Box to Citizens United by Zephyr Teachout (Harvard University Press)<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Unaccountable: How Elite Power Brokers Corrupt our Finances, Freedom, and Security by Janine Wedel (Pegasus Books)<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIf you want to know the truth about corporate power in the USA in the year 2014 &#8212; from corruption of our democracy to compromising our prosecutors, these books are must reading,&#8221; Mokhiber said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corporate Crime Reporter released today it\u2019s Top Ten Corporate Crime Books of 2014. \u201cTogether, these books give a clear snapshot of corporate crime in America today,\u201d said Russell Mokhiber, editor of Corporate Crime Reporter, a legal newsletter based in Washington, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/?p=1517\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}