Wall Street on Trial: A Corrupted State?

Foreword vii

Acknowledgements xi

Introduction: the corruption cycle 1

1 Assessing guilt: the Wall Street shakedown 37

2 Power failure: the fall of Enron 71

3 An appalling vista: the rogue of Rhode Island 115

4 Lynching Merrill 141

5 Enforcing the enforcers: the politics of business 175

6 Corporate politics: the buying of power 219

7 From Chicago to Washington via New York and Baghdad 247

Index 285