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Jul. 21, 2017
The Chickenshit Club
In his new book “The Chickenshit Club” — an inside reference to prosecutors too scared of failure and too daunted by legal impediments to do their job — Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jesse Eisinger gives a blistering account of corporate greed and impunity, and the reckless, often anemic response from the Department of Justice. In this excerpt, Eisinger discusses the DOJ’s effort to prosecute individuals behind the Enron scandal.
Jesse Eisinger
Jesse Eisinger is a Pulitzer Prize-winning senior reporter for ProPublica. He is a former columnist for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, and the former Wall Street editor of Condé Nast Portfolio. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Baffler, and many other publications. Eisinger was a finalist for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting in 2011 and 2015, and the winner of the Gerald Loeb Award for Commentary in 2015. He was named a New America fellow in 2016 and 2017.
ASSEMBLING THE TEAM
In the early years of the George W. Bush administration, its Department of Justice compiled a sterling record of corporate prosecutions. Larry Thompson, Bush's first deputy attorney general, understood that the DOJ had to respond assertively to the unfolding crisis. Thompson joined th...
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