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A long-overdue expose of the astonishing yet shadowy power wielded
by the world's largest law firms. Though not a household name,
Jones Day is well known in the halls of power, and serves as a
powerful encapsulation of the changes that have swept the legal
profession in recent decades. Founded in the US in 1893, it has
become one of the world's largest law firms, a global juggernaut
with deep ties to corporate interests and conservative politics. A
key player in the legal battles surrounding the Trump
administration, Jones Day has also for decades represented Big
Tobacco, defended opioid manufacturers, and worked tirelessly to
minimise the sexual-abuse scandals of the Catholic Church. Like
many of its peers, it has fought time and again for those who want
nothing more than to act without constraint or scrutiny - including
the Russian oligarchs as they have sought to expand
internationally. In this gripping and revealing new work of
narrative nonfiction, New York Times Business Investigations Editor
and bestselling author David Enrich at last tells the story of 'Big
Law' and the nearly unchecked influence these firms wield to shield
the wealthy and powerful - and bury their secrets.
Masters Of Spanish Comic Book Art is a celebration of the great
artists who revolutionized horror comics in the 1970s with their
work on Warren's Vampirella, Creepy, and Eerie horror comics. This
first-ever comprehensive history of Spanish comic books and Spanish
comic artists reveals their extraordinary success -- not just in
Spain and America, but around the world. Containing artwork from
over 80 artists, this in-depth retrospective includes profiles of
such legends as Esteban Maroto, Sanjulian, Jose Gonzalez, Jordi
Bernet, Enrich, Victor De La Fuente, Jose Ortiz and Luis Garcia
Mozos. With 500 illustrations, over half scanned directly from the
original artwork, Masters Of Spanish Comic Book Art honors the
"Golden Generation" whose artwork inspired the imagination of comic
book lovers everywhere.
The problems of entrenched poverty and economic underdevelopment in
American urban cores involve multiple overlapping challenges that
have stymied consistent and long-term progress for many decades.
Although inadequate and misguided laws are not solely responsible
for this state of affairs, good laws - and good lawyering - can
contribute enormously to overcoming the challenges of the urban
cores. By showcasing a range of scholarly analyses, covering a
broad spectrum of legal issues and methodologies, this book
demonstrates how law and lawyers can and do respond to the
challenges of the urban cores. It provides paths forward at the
local level in the face of federal political paralysis and
inattention and lays a foundation for new paradigms and new
approaches to intransigent problems. Modeling engaged legal
scholarship as a pragmatic response to contemporary challenges,
this book is for anyone concerned about the current state of
American urban cores.
The problems of entrenched poverty and economic underdevelopment in
American urban cores involve multiple overlapping challenges that
have stymied consistent and long-term progress for many decades.
Although inadequate and misguided laws are not solely responsible
for this state of affairs, good laws - and good lawyering - can
contribute enormously to overcoming the challenges of the urban
cores. By showcasing a range of scholarly analyses, covering a
broad spectrum of legal issues and methodologies, this book
demonstrates how law and lawyers can and do respond to the
challenges of the urban cores. It provides paths forward at the
local level in the face of federal political paralysis and
inattention and lays a foundation for new paradigms and new
approaches to intransigent problems. Modeling engaged legal
scholarship as a pragmatic response to contemporary challenges,
this book is for anyone concerned about the current state of
American urban cores.
Shortlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year!
'Will snare you in its web of deceit ... A brilliant investigative
expose' - Harlan Coben, bestselling thriller author 'Reads like a
fast-paced John le Carre thriller, and never lets up' - New York
Times book review The Spider Network is the almost-unbelievable and
darkly entertaining inside account of the Libor scandal - one of
the biggest, farthest-reaching financial scams since the global
financial crisis - written by the only journalist with access to
Tom Hayes before he was sentenced to fourteen years in prison. Full
of exclusive details, and with ramifications that stretch right
across the British establishment, this is a gripping, real-life
story of outlandish characters and reckless greed in the City of
London. By turns a rollicking account of the scandal and also a
provocative examination of a financial system that was crooked
throughout, The Spider Network is a perfect read for fans of The
Wolf of Wall Street and The Big Short.
#1 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER New
York Times finance editor David Enrich's explosive expose of the
most scandalous bank in the world, revealing its shadowy ties to
Donald Trump, Putin's Russia, and Nazi Germany "A jaw-dropping
financial thriller" --Philadelphia Inquirer On a rainy Sunday in
2014, a senior executive at Deutsche Bank was found hanging in his
London apartment. Bill Broeksmit had helped build the 150-year-old
financial institution into a global colossus, and his sudden death
was a mystery, made more so by the bank's efforts to deter
investigation. Broeksmit, it turned out, was a man who knew too
much. In Dark Towers, award-winning journalist David Enrich reveals
the truth about Deutsche Bank and its epic path of devastation.
Tracing the bank's history back to its propping up of a
default-prone American developer in the 1880s, helping the Nazis
build Auschwitz, and wooing Eastern Bloc authoritarians, he shows
how in the 1990s, via a succession of hard-charging executives,
Deutsche made a fateful decision to pursue Wall Street riches,
often at the expense of ethics and the law. Soon, the bank was
manipulating markets, violating international sanctions to aid
terrorist regimes, scamming investors, defrauding regulators, and
laundering money for Russian oligarchs. Ever desperate for an
American foothold, Deutsche also started doing business with a
self-promoting real estate magnate nearly every other bank in the
world deemed too dangerous to touch: Donald Trump. Over the next
twenty years, Deutsche executives loaned billions to Trump, the
Kushner family, and an array of scandal-tarred clients, including
convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Dark Towers is the
never-before-told saga of how Deutsche Bank became the global face
of financial recklessness and criminality--the corporate equivalent
of a weapon of mass destruction. It is also the story of a man who
was consumed by fear of what he'd seen at the bank--and his son's
obsessive search for the secrets he kept.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields
in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as
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++++ Estudis Enrich de Fuentes Llib. espanyola, d'A. Lopez, 1899
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