Episode

7/25 Jesse Eisinger: The Chickenshit Club

July 25, 2017

-What is the state of play with Healthcare repeal?
-New evidence declassified on the CIA backed 1953 coup in Iran

Author Jesse Eisinger author, of The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives, explains the creation of “White Color” crime. When Wall Street was scared of government. The importance of putting white color figures in prison. What is the “chikenshit” club and why the Department of Justice has become it. Arthur Anderson, Enron and where things went wrong. The Holder memo and the Obama’ Administration’s approach to prosecuting corporations and the creation of “collateral consequences”. How big corporate law firms undermine investigations into corporate crime and how corporate law change. Have Democrats and Republicans both failed extensively in corporate law enforcement? The Preet Bharara myth. Drawing the wrong lessons of Eliot Spitzer and what needs to be done to reform the Department of Justice.

On The Fun Half: Donald Trump turns a Boy Scout meet into an anti healthcare battle. Jeff Sessions has a vision. John Boehner says Obamacare won’t be repealed. Anthony Scaramucci outs Trump and your calls and IMs.

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