On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 10:15:39PM -0800, andie nachgeborenen wrote:
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> When he was a junior partner and I was mid-level
> associate at Kirkland & Ellis, a big law firm, I
> worked under Jim Mutchnik, formerly a Justice Dept
> antitrust lawyer, and a lead prosecutor in the ADM
> case. He told me that Rats In The Grain was a piece of
> garbage and the most reliable book on the case was
> Kurt Eichenwald's The Informant. Jim probably knows
> more about the ADM case than anyone, and the book is
> not overly flattering to him either (it shows that he
> made some serious mistakes in the prosecution of the
> case). It's generally regarded as the standard study
> in the white collar crime biz (I mean among lawyers
> and legal academics), in which I am a bit player. I
> wouldn't say it's apologetics. Far from it. His book
> on Enron (Conspiracy of Fools) is quite good, although
> not as good as The Smartest Guys In The Room (McLean &
> Elkind), and his book on the Prudential-Bache debacle,
> Serpent on the Rock, is also excellent.
>
> --- Michael Perelman <michael at ecst.csuchico.edu>
> wrote:
>
> > In Rats in the Grain, about the case against ADM, KE
> > plays a villianous role,
> > protecting the corporation & undermining its
> > critics.
> > --
> > Michael Perelman
> > Economics Department
> > California State University
> > Chico, CA 95929
> >
> > Tel. 530-898-5321
> > E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
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