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Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
At a time when Congressional investigations have taken on added importance and urgency in American politics, this book offers readers a rare, insider's portrait of the world of US Congressional oversight. It examines specific oversight investigations into multiple financial and offshore tax scandals over fifteen years, from 1999 to 2014, when Senator Levin served in a leadership role on the US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI),...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"David Wessel's incredible tale of how Washington works-and why the rich keep getting richer-starts when a Silicon Valley entrepreneur concocts an idea that will save money on his taxes and spins it as a way to ostensibly help poor people. He organizes and pays for an effective lobbying effort that pushes his idea into law with little scrutiny or fine-tuning by congressional or Treasury tax experts-and few safeguards against abuse. With an unbeatable...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Delaware is so boring that it's funny, as immortalized by one of the most memorable jokes in the movie Wayne's World. Indeed, Delaware is the de facto capital of corporate America, the embodiment of blandness. But what if behind this banality lay a systematic enterprise that blatantly diverted public funds away from the poorest people in America and supported the worst criminals and dictators in the world? Legal scholars, financial journalists, and...
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