Reckless Endangerment

Author : Gretchen Morgenson,Joshua Rosner
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1250008794

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Reckless Endangerment by Gretchen Morgenson,Joshua Rosner Pdf

A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book for 2011 One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year In Reckless Endangerment, Gretchen Morgenson exposes how the watchdogs who were supposed to protect the country from financial harm were actually complicit in the actions that finally blew up the American economy. Drawing on previously untapped sources and building on original research from coauthor Joshua Rosner—who himself raised early warnings with the public and investors, and kept detailed records—Morgenson connects the dots that led to this fiasco. Morgenson and Rosner draw back the curtain on Fannie Mae, the mortgage-finance giant that grew, with the support of the Clinton administration, through the 1990s, becoming a major opponent of government oversight even as it was benefiting from public subsidies. They expose the role played not only by Fannie Mae executives but also by enablers at Countrywide Financial, Goldman Sachs, the Federal Reserve, HUD, Congress, and the biggest players on Wall Street, to show how greed, aggression, and fear led countless officials to ignore warning signs of an imminent disaster. Character-rich and definitive in its analysis, and with a new afterword that brings the story up to date, this is the one account of the financial crisis you must read.

Author : Amber Lea Easton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-10
Category : Human trafficking
ISBN : 0615801617

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Reckless Endangerment by Amber Lea Easton Pdf

Sometimes heroes fall and take their loved ones down with them. Colonel Michael Cedars and reporter Hope Shane fell in love in a war zone, but then the world blew up and splintered their lives in two. Coming home again isn't always easy. A Marine accustomed to giving orders, Michael struggles to find his role in civilian life. Wounded, he faces new battles as he learns to walk again, struggles with wartime ghosts, and questions his abilities as a husband. Hope doesn't give up-not on the man she loves and not on her pursuit of justice. An investigative reporter, she's hot on the trail of a human trafficking ring. Danger intensifies as she gets closer to the truth, but the human traffickers know her weakness. Will Michael become her Achilles Heel? Is he still the hero she married or has he become a liability that could get them both killed?

Author : Robert James McWhirter
Publisher : American Bar Association
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Law
ISBN : 1590316029

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The Criminal Lawyer's Guide to Immigration Law by Robert James McWhirter Pdf

This concise guide focuses on the criminal lawyer's most common questions about immigration law and representing noncitizens, from Who exactly is an alien? to Are removal hearings conducted like criminal proceedings?

Author : Robert K. Tanenbaum
Publisher : Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1504091515

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Reckless Endangerment by Robert K. Tanenbaum Pdf

The Israeli/Palestinian conflict erupts in NYC in this "hair-raising" pre-9/11 thriller from the New York Times-bestselling author of Material Witness (People). An elderly Jewish couple has been gunned down in their Fourteenth Street delicatessen. Above them, anti-Israel graffiti has been scrawled in Arabic. Evidence points to a few clueless teens, but this seemingly open-and-shut case threatens to stir up a dangerous and divisive media frenzy. As rhetoric from Jewish and Muslim community leaders reaches fever pitch, prosecutor Butch Karp and his wife, private investigator Marlene Ciampi, fight to keep the city from coming apart at the seams. But the truth behind the horrifying crime is far more dangerous than anyone thought--and more victims are turning up. If public outrage doesn't destroy the city, an ingenious group of conspirators just might. From the former New York assistant DA and bestselling author of Infamy, this is a classic entry in the Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi series, which shows 1970's New York in all its violent, dirty glory. Reckless Endangerment is the 10th book in the Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order. "While the legal writing is as expert as ever, this book gets its punch from Tanenbaum's knotted, tangled vision of Manhattan." --The Washington Post Book World "Hair-raising." --People

Author : Oonagh McDonald
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781780935232

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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac by Oonagh McDonald Pdf

The book demonstrates how politicians and federal agencies dominated Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and took just thirteen years to wreck the American dream of home ownership.

Author : Lawrence Taylor,Steven Oberman
Publisher : Wolters Kluwer
Page : 1272 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780735554290

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Drunk Driving Defense by Lawrence Taylor,Steven Oberman Pdf

For even the most seasoned DUI lawyers, defending drunk driving cases has always presented special challenges. Today, mounting a successful drunk driving defense is more difficult than ever. That's why DWI attorneys rely on Drunk Driving Defense . Written by Lawrence Taylor and Steven Oberman, Drunk Driving Defense is generally considered to be the standard-bearing reference in the field. Clear explanations of key scientific and technological issues for DUI lawyers Drunk Driving Defense ensures that you Understand The chemical, biological and technological concepts and issues underlying drunk driving defense and prosecution. Rely on expert DUI lawyers Taylor and Oberman to bring you up to speed in key areas including: The key defects inherent in blood and breath analysis and testing. The correlation between blood alcohol concentration and actual impairment. The effects of stress and cold weather on alcohol absorption. How fermentation of the blood sample may raise blood alcohol levels. The effect of acetone in breath tests taken by diabetics and dieters. Possible errors in breath analysis due to RFI (radio frequency interference). The effect of trauma from an automobile accident on alcohol elimination Dozens of Practical DWI attorney tools to streamline and simplify drunk driving defense preparation Drunk Driving Defense, Sixth Edition contains dozens of practical tools to streamline and simplify the complex DUI defense process. And now, they are all included on a free bonus DWI Lawyer Resources CD-ROM so you can locate, review, and print them out in a matter of seconds, including: Dozens of quick-reference checklists to help DUI lawyers avoid critical missteps. Sample drunk driving defense motions including those to help DU I lawyers to facilitate discovery, appoint chemical experts, and suppress blood alcohol evidence. More than 150 pages of verbatim direct and DWI attorney cross testimony and statements. Sample arrest reports, instrument instructions and other forms use by police agencies. Comprehensive DWI attorney-client interview questionnaires for DUI lawyers. Detailed operator's manuals For The most current blood alcohol testing equipment: including the Intoxilyzer 8000. Try Drunk Driving Defense Risk-Free for 30 days. Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed. If for any reason you are not completely satisfied, simply return it to us. FREE SHIPPING! Domestic Ground Shipping is Free when you pay by credit card

Author : Stephen Shute,A. P. Simester
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Law
ISBN : 0199243492

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Criminal Law Theory by Stephen Shute,A. P. Simester Pdf

Concentrating upon those doctrines that make up the general part of the criminal law this collection of essays by leading American and British legal experts sheds theoretical light on key issues of contemporary relevance.

Author : David C. Brody,James R. Acker,Wayne A. Logan
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Law
ISBN : 0834210835

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Criminal Law by David C. Brody,James R. Acker,Wayne A. Logan Pdf

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Author : Christopher Melchert
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110617719

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Before Sufism by Christopher Melchert Pdf

Christopher Melchert proposes to historicize Islamic renunciant piety (zuhd). As the conquest period wound down in the early eighth century c.e., renunciants set out to maintain the contempt of worldly comfort and loyalty to a greater cause that had characterized the community of Muslims in the seventh century. Instead of reckless endangerment on the battlefield, they cultivated intense fear of the Last Judgement to come. They spent nights weeping, reciting the Qur’an, and performing supererogatory ritual prayers. They stressed other-worldliness to the extent of minimizing good works in this world. Then the decline of tribute from the conquered peoples and conversion to Islam made it increasingly unfeasible for most Muslims to keep up any such régime. Professional differentiation also provoked increasing criticism of austerity. Finally, in the later ninth century, a form of Sufism emerged that would accommodate those willing and able to spend most of their time on religious devotions, those willing and able to spend their time on other religious pursuits such as law and hadith, and those unwilling or unable to do either.

Author : Markus Dubber,Tatjana Hörnle
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191030673

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Criminal Law by Markus Dubber,Tatjana Hörnle Pdf

Criminal Law: A Comparative Approach presents a systematic and comprehensive analysis of the substantive criminal law of two major jurisdictions: the United States and Germany. Presupposing no familiarity with either U.S. or German criminal law, the book will provide criminal law scholars and students with a rich comparative understanding of criminal law's foundations and central doctrines. All foreign-language sources have been translated into English; cases and materials are accompanied by heavily cross-referenced introductions and notes that place them within the framework of each country's criminal law system and highlight issues ripe for comparative analysis. Divided into three parts, the book covers foundational issues - such as constitutional limits on the criminal law - before tackling the major features of the general part of the criminal law and a selection of offences in the special part. Throughout, readers are exposed to alternative approaches to familiar problems in criminal law, and as a result will have a chance to see a given country's criminal law doctrine, on specific issues and in general, from the critical distance of comparative analysis.

Author : Skinner-Thompson, Scott
Publisher : Wolters Kluwer
Page : 1370 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-17
Category : AIDS (Disease)
ISBN : 9781543816426

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AIDS and the Law, 6th Edition by Skinner-Thompson, Scott Pdf

AIDS and the Law, Sixth Edition AIDS and the Law provides comprehensive coverage of the complex legal issues, as well as the underlying medical and scientific issues, surrounding the HIV epidemic. Covering a broad range of legal fields from employment to health care to housing and privacy rights, this essential resource provides thorough up-to-date coverage of a rapidly changing area of law. AIDS and the Law brings you up-to-date on the latest developments, including: Updates regarding additional consensus that Undetectable = Untransmittable (Chapter 2) Overview of continuing efforts to chip away at the Affordable Care Act (Chapter 2) Discussion regarding states now imposing work requirements for Medicaid (Chapter 9) Analysis of the Trump Administration's many changes to immigration policy, including policing of immigrants seeking public benefits (Chapter 11)Overview of the Department of Justice's decision regarding whether domestic violence can serve as the basis for asylum (Chapter 11) Updates on new Supreme Court precedent regarding exhaustion of administrative remedies under the Prison Litigation Reform Act (Chapter 14) New case law pertaining to the impact of HIV in the family law context (Chapter 13)

Author : James Farragher Campbell,P. David Fisher,David A. Mansfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1072 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Defense (Criminal procedure)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105061265570

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Defense of Speeding, Reckless Driving & Vehicular Homicide by James Farragher Campbell,P. David Fisher,David A. Mansfield Pdf

Author : HENRY F. FRADELLA
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780190682477

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Criminal Law by HENRY F. FRADELLA Pdf

Criminal Law offers a unique hybrid approach to learning criminal law. Most textbooks oversimply the law by presenting the black letter law for major and defenses, but they rarely present any corresponding exploration of the gray areas that exist beyond the basic rules of law. Conversely, casebooks present numerous edited judicial opinions, often with context. Criminal Law takes the best from each of these approaches by merging textual pedagogy and case analyses into a coherent framework that includes legal history, social context, and public policy. Taking a historical approach, legal expert Henry F. Fradella presents the law as it evolved from English common law and compares it with the modern statutory approach to crimes set forth in the American Law Institute's highly influential Model Penal Code. After providing such comparative pedagogy for each crime or defense, Criminal Law presents 1-2 edited cases that allow the reader to contrast how the black letter law plays out in the real world. After each case, a series of questions challenge students to engage in critical thinking about the case and its implications as precedent. Finally, chapters contain a number of additional pedagogical features that focus on public policy concerns and statutory interpretation skills using penal laws from a variety of U.S. states.

Author : Roger D. Masters,Michael T. McGuire
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Behavior
ISBN : 0809318016

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The Neurotransmitter Revolution by Roger D. Masters,Michael T. McGuire Pdf

Extraordinary advances in neurochemistry are both transforming our understanding of human nature and creating an urgent problem. Much is now known about the ways that neurotransmitters influence normal social behavior, mental illness, and deviance. What are these discoveries about the workings of the human brain? How can they best be integrated into our legal system? These explosive issues are best understood by focusing on a single neurotransmitter like serotonin, which is associated with such diverse behaviors as dominance and leadership, seasonal depression, suicide, alcoholism, impulsive homicide, and arson. This book brings together revised papers from a conference on this theme organized by the Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research, supplemented with articles by leading scholars who did not attend. Contributors include psychiatrists, neurologists, social scientists, and legal scholars. The Neurotransmitter Revolution presents a unique survey of the scientific and legal implications of research on the way serotonin combines with other factors to shape human behavior. The findings are quite different from what might have been expected even a decade ago. The neurochemistry of behavior is not the same thing as genetic determinism. On the contrary, the activity of serotonin varies from one individual to another for many reasons, including the individual’s life experience, social status, personality, and diet. And there are a number of major neurotransmitter systems, each of which interacts with the other. Behavior, culture, and the social environment can influence neurochemistry along with inheritance. Nature and nurture interact—and these interactions can be understood from a vigorously scientific point of view. The fact that our actions are heavily influenced by neurotransmitters like serotonin is bound to be disquieting. A sophisticated understanding of law and human social behavior will be needed if our society is to respond adequately to these rapid advances in our knowledge. This book is an essential step in that direction, providing the first comprehensive survey of the biochemical, social, and legal considerations arising from research on the behavioral effects of serotonin and related neurotransmitters.

Author : Malcolm Bell
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781510716148

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The Attica Turkey Shoot by Malcolm Bell Pdf

The Attica Turkey Shoot tells a story that New York State did not want you to know. In 1971, following a prison riot at the Attica Correctional Facility, state police and prison guards slaughtered thirty-nine hostages and inmates and tortured more than one thousand men after they had surrendered. State officials pretended that they could not successfully prosecute the law officers who perpetrated this carnage, and then those same officials scurried for shelter when a prosecutor named Malcolm Bell exposed the cover-up. Bell traveled a rocky road to a justice of sorts as he sought to prosecute without fear or favor—in spite of a deck that the officials had stacked to keep the police from facing the same justice that had filled the Attica prison in the first place. His insider’s account illuminates the all-too-common contrast between the justice of the privileged and the justice of the rest. The book also includes evidence from recently uncovered tapes that Governor Nelson Rockefeller knew his order for troopers to attack could cost the lives of hundreds of inmates and all those hostages. The Attica Turkey Shoot highlights the hypocrisy of a criminal justice system that decides who goes to prison and who enjoys impunity in a nation where no one is said to be above the law.