Big Money Crime: Fraud and Politics in the Savings and Loan Crisis

by Kitty Calavita, Henry N. Pontell, Robert Tillman

Book Overview

At a cost of $500 billion to American taxpayers, the savings and loan debacle of the 1980s was the worst financial crisis of the twentieth century as well as a crime unparalleled in American history. Yet the vast majority of its perpetrators will never be prosecuted, and those who were have received minimal sentences. In the first in-depth scrutiny of the ways and means of this disaster, this groundbreaking book comes to disturbing conclusions about...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520219473
• ISBN13: 9780520219472
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 281 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

The truth hurts

This book was well researched. I bought this book for the purpose of writing a research paper. However, it is an interesting read at the same time, very factual. Another book on this subject I would recommend is "S & L Hell by Kathleen Day

What everyone missed but payed for.

A rigourously detailed, cited, and sad indictment on one of the most significant domestic issues in recent U.S.A. history. Read how the bankers and politicians saw it coming, but instead of prevention, deliberatly increased the magnitude of the crisis to a level of such massive debt, that the American public would be forced to flip the bill instead of the criminals who are at fault.