Larceny in My Blood - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Larceny in My Blood write by Matthew J. Parker. This book was released on 2012-08-07. Larceny in My Blood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A fully illustrated graphic memoir of a child of the '60s who was raised into a life of crime and addiction —but graduated into freedom. Matthew Parker was in his mid-forties when he started college. He’d been sidetracked: Eleven years were eaten up by serving time in various county jails, state penitentiaries, and federal prison. He’d been arrested more than thirty times, racking up eight felonies in a crime career that began at age thirteen, when he started dealing pot. When he got out of prison for the last time and kicked his heroin addiction, he was determined to spend the next chapter of his life in the classroom. And he did just that, going on to complete a master’s degree from Columbia University’s highly competitive creative writing program. Through captivating black-and-white illustrations drawn in a distinctively primitive style, Larceny in My Blood flashes back on Parker's childhood, with memories of a loving but lawless mother teaching him that breaking the law was the way to survive. From there it moves to an account of Parker’s lost decades, where he resorted to petty crime to support a heroin habit. After years of fighting the system, Parker sees the light and Larceny in My Blood becomes a poignant portrait of a man trying to find his way in the straight and narrow. A unique memoir, Parker’s images and words form a mesmerizing road to redemption.
Charlie Wilson's War
Charlie Wilson's War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Charlie Wilson's War write by George Crile. This book was released on 2003. Charlie Wilson's War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Recounts the events surrounding the last battle of the Cold War and discusses how those events fueled the new jihad and led to the rise of militant Islam.
Where the Money Was
Where the Money Was - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Where the Money Was write by Willie Sutton. This book was released on 2004-03-23. Where the Money Was available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Broadway Books Library of Larceny Luc Sante, General Editor For more than fifty years, Willie Sutton devoted his boundless energy and undoubted genius exclusively to two activities at which he became better than any man in history: breaking in and breaking out. The targets in the first instance were banks and in the second, prisons. Unarguably America’s most famous bank robber, Willie never injured a soul, but took on almost a hundred banks and departed three of America’s most escape-proof penitentiaries. This is the stuff of myth—rascally and cautionary by turns—yet true in every searing, diverting, and brilliantly recalled detail.
Big Dirty Money
Big Dirty Money - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Big Dirty Money write by Jennifer Taub. This book was released on 2021-09-28. Big Dirty Money available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Blood-boiling…with quippy analysis…Taub proposes straightforward fixes and ways everyday people can get involved in taking white-collar criminals to task.”—San Francisco Chronicle How ordinary Americans suffer when the rich and powerful use tax dodges or break the law to get richer and more powerful—and how we can stop it. There is an elite crime spree happening in America, and the privileged perps are getting away with it. Selling loose cigarettes on a city sidewalk can lead to a choke-hold arrest, and death, if you are not among the top 1%. But if you're rich and commit mail, wire, or bank fraud, embezzle pension funds, lie in court, obstruct justice, bribe a public official, launder money, or cheat on your taxes, you're likely to get off scot-free (or even win an election). When caught and convicted, such as for bribing their kids' way into college, high-class criminals make brief stops in minimum security "Club Fed" camps. Operate the scam from the executive suite of a giant corporation, and you can prosper with impunity. Consider Wells Fargo & Co. Pressured by management, employees at the bank opened more than three million bank and credit card accounts without customer consent, and charged late fees and penalties to account holders. When CEO John Stumpf resigned in "shame," the board of directors granted him a $134 million golden parachute. This is not victimless crime. Big Dirty Money details the scandalously common and concrete ways that ordinary Americans suffer when the well-heeled use white collar crime to gain and sustain wealth, social status, and political influence. Profiteers caused the mortgage meltdown and the prescription opioid crisis, they've evaded taxes and deprived communities of public funds for education, public health, and infrastructure. Taub goes beyond the headlines (of which there is no shortage) to track how we got here (essentially a post-Enron failure of prosecutorial muscle, the growth of "too big to jail" syndrome, and a developing implicit immunity of the upper class) and pose solutions that can help catch and convict offenders.
Excerpts from the Transcript of Trial Proceedings in the Case of the United States of America V. John W. Jenrette, Jr., in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Crim. No. 80-289
Excerpts from the Transcript of Trial Proceedings in the Case of the United States of America V. John W. Jenrette, Jr., in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Crim. No. 80-289 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Excerpts from the Transcript of Trial Proceedings in the Case of the United States of America V. John W. Jenrette, Jr., in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Crim. No. 80-289 write by John W. Jenrette. This book was released on 1980. Excerpts from the Transcript of Trial Proceedings in the Case of the United States of America V. John W. Jenrette, Jr., in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Crim. No. 80-289 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
