Podcast appearances and mentions of Jesse Eisinger

This past year, what feels like a hundred in Trump years, Gaslit Nation listeners have asked the same question: How did we get here? The answer, though deeply unsettling, is vital to understand. It's the story of a 40-year campaign waged by far-right Christian nationalists, Big Oil, and corporate power to undermine our democracy. To help us all make sense of this crisis moment, as a firehose of corruption and racist disinformation blasts from the White House, we've created a special “Best of Gaslit Nation” episode. This powerful montage connects the dots with help from some of the most tenacious experts sounding the alarm. You'll hear from Ari Berman of Mother Jones and author of Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People—and the Fight to Resist It; Anne Nelson, author of The Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right;  Nancy MacLean, author of Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America, Elie Mystal of The Nation and author of Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America, and more. Each voice reveals a piece of the puzzle: how the Reagan revolution, Supreme Court corruption, and dark money led us to this breaking point, unleashing Trump as their Frankenstein monster.  But this isn't just about history: it's about action. The Gaslit Nation Action Guide is your toolkit for resisting, rebuilding, and reclaiming our democracy. The darkness we face cannot withstand our collective light. So stand up. Be defiant. Shine bright. This chapter isn't the end: it's our call to build something better, together. Want to enjoy Gaslit Nation ad-free? Join our community of listeners for bonus shows, ad-free episodes, exclusive Q&A sessions, our group chat, invites to live events like our Monday political salons at 4pm ET over Zoom, and more! Sign up at Patreon.com/Gaslit! Two special events! This Thursday May 29 at 8pm ET, the Media and Democracy Forum will host Pulitzer-winning cartoonist Ann Telnaes to discuss editorial cartooning's role in democracy, press freedom, and 2025's controversy involving her rejected cartoon by Washington Post editor David Shipley. RSVP here: https://www.mobilize.us/mediademocracyproject/event/768371/ June 16 at 4pm ET, Keira Havens of Citizens' Impeachment joins the Gaslit Nation salon to discuss the growing movement to demand the impeachment of Donald Trump and why it matters. Look out for a Zoom link on Patreon the morning of the event, and be sure to visit citizensimpeachment.com. Featured Episodes: Minority Rule, featuring Ari Berman https://www.gaslitnationpod.com/episodes-transcripts-20/2024/4/23/minority-rule   Voter Suppression Emergency: The Ari Berman Interview https://www.gaslitnationpod.com/episodes-transcripts-20/2021/6/24/voter-suppression-emergency-the-ari-berman-interview   The World Must Stand Up to Trump's America, featuring Elie Mystal https://www.gaslitnationpod.com/episodes-transcripts-20/2025/2/11/the-world-must-stand-up-to-trumps-america?rq=elie%20mystal   Bad Faith, featuring filmmaker Stephen Ujlaki https://www.gaslitnationpod.com/episodes-transcripts-20/2024/4/16/bad-faith   Democracy in Chains: The Nancy MacLean Interview - Part I https://www.gaslitnationpod.com/episodes-transcripts-20/2022/6/1/nancy-maclean-interview-part-01   Can the Reagan Revolution Be Undone?, featuring Jesse Eisinger https://www.gaslitnationpod.com/episodes-transcripts-20/2023/12/13/reagan-revolution-jesse-eisinger-part-2   Project 2025 Super Special, featuring Anne Nelson https://www.gaslitnationpod.com/episodes-transcripts-20/2024/5/21/project-2025-super-specialnbsp   EVENTS AT GASLIT NATION: June 16 4pm ET – Keira Havens of Citizens Impeachment joins Gaslit Nation to discuss the Trump impeachment movement; details at citizensimpeachment.com. June 30pm ET – Book club discussion of Lillian Faderman's  The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle Indiana-based listeners launched a Signal group for others in the state to join, available on Patreon. Florida-based listeners are going strong meeting in person. Be sure to join their Signal group, available on Patreon. Have you taken Gaslit Nation's HyperNormalization Survey Yet? Gaslit Nation Salons take place Mondays 4pm ET over Zoom and the first ~40 minutes are recorded and shared on Patreon.com/Gaslit for our community

Give to help Chris make Truce How do ultra-wealthy people avoid paying taxes? It seems like a strange subject to bring up when discussing why some evangelicals are drawn to the Republican Party. But many of the ties between evangelicals and the GOP have to do with money. So, let's take a little side trip and explore the tax loopholes of today. More importantly, let's try to understand why so many Americans are tax-averse. Could it possibly be because we, deep down, know that someone else is getting a better deal than us? One tactic used by the ultra-wealthy is "buy, borrow, die". They avoid "income", instead opting for assets like stock and real estate they can borrow against. Borrowed money is not taxed. Then they either pay back those loans with other loans (often with interest rates that are much lower than their tax rates would be) or they fail to pay back the loans. Then... they die. Jesse Eisinger is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter with Pro Publica. Chris first heard about him from his book (pardon the language) The Chickenshit Club and met him when he appeared at a live event in Jackson, WY hosted by the Teton County Library, the Center for the Arts, and the Jackson Hole News and Guide. Sources Pro-Publica's reporting on taxation This lecture at the Center for the Arts in Jackson, WY on November 8, 2023 Fascinating IRS responses to some of the conspiracy theories about them Disney's Donald Duck film "The New Spirit" encourages income tax as a national duty Time Magazine article about the history of taxes William McKinley vs. William Jennings Bryan by John Pafford (pg 29) New York Times archival article listing taxes paid by the wealthy The 16th Amendment The Macomber case article on Justia.com Historic Tax Bracket data Time Magazine article on the John Birch Society Methodist History from January 1988 Discussion Questions: What are your thoughts on the income tax in general? How should countries be funded? Why might a progressive tax structure (where wealthy people pay more) make sense? How could we close some of these tax loopholes? What is the difference between income and wealth? Should we tax wealth in the USA? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A rogue IRS contractor leaks the private tax returns of the country's wealthiest citizens to a reporter. That reporter, ProPublica's Jesse Eisinger, learns that some of our billionaires are paying as little as zero dollars in federal income taxes. The story of how this country came up with an income tax in the first place, and how the wealthiest discovered an opt-out strategy. Support the show at searchengine.show! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Episode 47 Fireside Chat With Bill Baroni and Jesse Eisinger Recorded at our 2024 White-Collar Symposium held in Philadelphia last month, this special episode dives into the landscape of white-collar criminal prosecution from the perspectives of Bill Baroni and Jesse Eisinger. Both former podcast guests, Bill and Jesse provide Matt Adams with insight into their personal experiences with the presumption of innocence. They also share their views on how politics does — and does not — influence cases pursued by the Department of Justice. Bill is the former deputy executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey who was indicted and served prison time in connection with the infamous Bridgegate scandal before his conviction was unanimously overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court. Jesse, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, is the author of The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives, which explores the DOJ's prosecutorial approach from the early 2000s Enron era into the Great Recession and the collapse of the financial markets.

Episode 34 A Conversation With Jesse Eisinger, Author of 'The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives' In a single decade, the prosecutions of those accused of white-collar crime underwent a radical transformation. This thought-provoking episode will take you back in time to explore the DOJ approach in the early 2000s Enron era and walk you forward into the Great Recession and the collapse of the financial markets. Jesse Eisinger, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, joins host Matt Adams to discuss his book, "The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives." The pair discusses how the pendulum swung drastically from a time of nightly executive perp walks on the evening news, to today, where settlements reign supreme and accountability for inflicting widespread economic harm via white-collar crimes is absent. You'll discover the historical context for the Department of Justice's current Principles of Corporate Prosecution and find out how politics — sometimes counterintuitively — plays into the Department of Justice's actions.

Give to help Chris make Truce Season six is almost here! This season we're exploring the backstory of why so many evangelicals turned to the Republican Party in the 1970s and 80s. It's a huge story that involves murder, corruption, greed, taxes, school choice, racism, and a lot of big questions. Special guests include Rick Perlstein, Frances Fitzgerald, Marjorie Spruill, Jesse Eisinger, and so many more. Subscribe to Truce wherever you get your podcasts, or listen at trucepodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Reagan Revolution and “greed is good” remain in full swing, ushering in a level of wealth inequality that surpasses the Gilded Age.  "Progressives, especially, must recognize that pres erving constitutional freedoms depends on winning the fight for economic liberties. Treating them as separate goals will ultimately mean losing out on both," writes Caroline Fredrickson, the former president of the American Constitution Society, the Democrats' answer to Leonard Leo's Federalist Society and his $1.6 billion war chest. You've probably never heard of the American Constitution Society, because they haven't been as effective. In September, Fredrickson wrote a damning piece for The Atlantic explaining why, taking herself and other Democrats to task for packing our courts with corporate-friendly judges under recent Democratic administrations, including the current one. It seemed enough for Democrats that a judge was a woman, nonwhite, and cared about protecting reproductive healthcare. As a result, for decades, our courts have become a rubber stamp for rolling back regulations and defying antitrust laws. Even the Biden-appointed antitrust Elizabeth Warren protégé Lina Khan, chair of the Federal Trade Commission, has been powerless against the corporate defenders packed on our courts. Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Jesse Eisinger of ProPublica, author of The Chicken Shit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives, explains that to undo the Reagan Revolution, prioritize appointing judges who will uphold antitrust laws and protect unions. To be true allies to women and nonwhite people, who are harder hit by economic downturns, fight for economic justice as the foundation for social justice. The Democrats need to get clear on that and respond with a robust judicial appointment strategy immediately, while there's still time.  This week's bonus show, available for our listeners at the Truth-tell level and higher, will feature questions and comments from our listeners at the Democracy Defender level and higher. Exclusively for our Patroen community at the Truth-teller level and higher, mark your calendars for the January 18th 8pm ET social media workshop to be held over Zoom–on how to kick our Twitter habit and use our social media voices for good in the world in 2024 and beyond–with organizer Rachel Brody of the movement to Replace Jay Jacobs, the disastrous chair of the New York state Democrats who cost us the House. We look forward to seeing you there! Thank you to everyone who supports the show -- we could not make Gaslit Nation without you!  To join the conversation and get your questions answered, as well as receive all episodes, including bonus shows, ad-free, sign up at the Democracy Defender level or higher on Patreon.com/Gaslit!  Show Notes: Brexit and Trump are the Same Crime: The Carole Cadwalladr Interview https://www.gaslitnationpod.com/episodes-transcripts-20/2019/4/15/brexit-and-trump-are-the-same-crime-the-carole-cadwalladr-interview Arron Banks may have been ‘used and exploited' by Russia, court hears This article is more than 1 year old Journalist Carole Cadwalladr gives evidence as she defends her reporting on multimillionaire Brexit backer https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jan/17/arron-banks-used-and-exploited-by-russia-court-hears Try the Yuka App: Scan Your Shopping Cart With Yuka and Make Healthier Choices Are there carcinogenic red dyes in your canned soup, or is it just a little too salty? Yuka can tell you, but you may not like what you find. https://www.wired.com/story/yuka-app/ E.U. Reaches Deal on World's First Comprehensive AI Rules https://time.com/6344628/eu-ai-rules-deal/ What I Most Regret About My Decades of Legal Activism By focusing on civil liberties but ignoring economic issues, liberals like me got defeated on both. By Caroline Fredrickson https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/federal-judiciary-biden-court-appointments/675336/  Republicans to meet allies of Hungary's Viktor Orbán on ending Ukraine aid Hungarian appearance at two-day event part of Orbán's transatlantic attempt to bolster Russia's war https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/10/hungary-viktor-orban-republicans-ukraine-aid Want to Tax the Rich for Real? Pay Attention to This Supreme Court Case. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/10/opinion/supreme-court-wealthy-taxes.html Zelensky visits Washington in push for more Ukraine aid https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/zelensky-biden-visit-12-12-23/index.html

The Supreme Court is at it again! This current season of the American Hunger Games, also known as a Supreme Court session, could be as disastrous for the American people and great for the far-right donor class since Citizens United. Here to help us make sense of the firehose of corruption coming out of the nation's highest court is Jesse Eisinger, a senior editor and investigative reporter for ProPublica and author of "The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives." Eisinger edited and led the team of journalists who produced several investigations exposing the massive bribes— we mean, the totally unethical and impeachable financial entanglements of Republican-appointed justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. The discussion includes why Republicans build war chests to capture our courts for generations and why Democrats continue to have no strategy in response; why the DOJ let Wall Street off the hook for tanking our global economy and what that means for whether Trump and his co-conspirators will also get away with their crimes and corruption, and how to push back against elite criminal impunity in a time of historic income inequality—worse than the Gilded Age. This week's bonus episode will answer questions from listeners at the Democracy Defender level and higher on Patreon. Andrea will also share some colorful insights from someone who had to work with Russian oligarchs back in the car bomb 1990s in Russia. For our Patreon community, Mark your calendar for the January 18th, 8 pm ET social media workshop to help us get in gear for raising our voices as we head into another make-it-or-break-it election year for our democracy and, therefore, the world Want to join the conversation? Subscribe to join our community of listeners at Patreon.com/Gaslit  Show Notes: Urgent call-to-action from Razom for Ukraine: Call your representative and ask them to pass supplemental funding for Ukraine. More info for taking quick action here: https://www.votervoice.net/RAZOMFORUKRAINE/Campaigns/107413/Respond How to Volunteer in Ukraine https://www.volunteeringukraine.com/ How to Visit Ukraine https://visitukraine.today/ Make a tax deductible donation to the Berliner Odessa Express https://www.we-aid.org/en/initiatives/berlinodessaexpress/ Short film by Rick Minnich on the Berliner Odessa Express: “We Are Here” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjzAsCG--6I Clarence Thomas' 38 Vacations: The Other Billionaires Who Have Treated the Supreme Court Justice to Luxury Travel https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-other-billionaires-sokol-huizenga-novelly-supreme-court Clarence Thomas Secretly Participated in Koch Network Donor Events https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-secretly-attended-koch-brothers-donor-events-scotus We Don't Talk About Leonard: The Man Behind the Right's Supreme Court Supermajority https://www.propublica.org/article/we-dont-talk-about-leonard-leo-supreme-court-supermajority   The Parallax View (Journalistic thriller recommended by Jesse Eisinger)  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Parallax_View   Justice Samuel Alito Took Luxury Fishing Vacation With GOP Billionaire Who Later Had Cases Before the Court https://www.propublica.org/article/samuel-alito-luxury-fishing-trip-paul-singer-scotus-supreme-court   It's Not Personal: Why Clarence Thomas' Trip to the Koch Summit Undermines His Ethics Defense https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-koch-network-trips-disclosure-law-scotus   Citizens for Ethics: “Republicans are promising to unleash a whirlwind of 150 subpoenas on allies of Democrats if Senator Durbin moves forward with a subpoena of Harlan Crow in his Supreme Court ethics investigation. That threat just shows how powerful Harlan Crow really is.”  https://twitter.com/CREWcrew/status/1730195116663394757?t=-epurOECtmwyOyu6rjyEgQ&s=19   New Supreme Court Ethics Code Is Designed to Fail https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/new-supreme-court-ethics-code-designed-fail   Supreme Court conservatives seem likely to axe SEC enforcement powers https://www.npr.org/2023/11/29/1215931171/supreme-court-heard-arguments-in-a-challenge-to-the-secs-ability-to-fight-fraud   Behind the Scenes of Justice Alito's Unprecedented Wall Street Journal Pre-buttal The Journal editorial page accused ProPublica of misleading readers in a story that hadn't yet been published. https://www.propublica.org/article/behind-scenes-alito-wall-street-journal-prebuttal-editorial   Supreme Court's SEC case ruling could ‘upend government as we know it' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYooyPcRNVc   Supreme Court Skeptical of Argument That Could Hobble Consumer Watchdog The justices heard a challenge to the way Congress funded the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau but seemed persuaded that it was constitutional. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/03/us/supreme-court-cfpb.html   Billionaires had a surprisingly bad day in the Supreme Court today https://www.vox.com/scotus/2023/12/5/23989306/supreme-court-wealth-tax-billionaires-moore-united-states-elizabeth-warren

This is an excerpt of Gaslit Nation's weekly bonus episode. To listen to the extended version, receive all episodes ad free, exclusive event invites, and join the conversation, support the show at Patreon.com/Gaslit.    The average bedtime for children is around 8pm. Late into the night, well past that hour, angry mobs honk and scream into bullhorns outside a migrant shelter on Staten Island. Their rioutous harassment, meant to terrorize the newly arrived aslym seekers that include children, can be heard in homes far up the street. This goes on night after night.   In this extra pissed off bonus episode of Gaslit Nation, Andrea explains how disinformation worsens the migrant crisis, why Republican crony Mayor Eric Adams with his Russian mobbed up pals is the worst person for this moment of crisis in New York City, and how Merrick Garland continues to empower corruption in America that profits off the demise of our democracy.   Unfortunately, the Hunter Biden investigation makes it nearly impossible for President Biden to replace Merrick Garland (though he should immediately!). But that would be seen by the hand-wringers in the Democratic Party establishment as feeding the far-right's echochamber. As the clip of the recent Garland hearing in this episode shows, the DOJ was called on by Democratic members of Congress to investigate Clarence Thomas for being on the payroll of Nazi memorabilia enthusiast and far-right mega-donor Harlan Crow. When pressed on that matter, you can hear and/or see for yourself in the clip how Garland sounds dismissive, almost annoyed, like he doesn't grasp the urgency–because he doesn't. The latest bombshell investigation by ProPublica, out yesterday, exposes how Thomas worked fundraisers for a group that regularly took cases before him at the Supreme Court. (Look out for our interview with ProPublica's Jesse Eisinger about their damning investigations into Thomas, Alito, and what can be done about elite criminal impunity. Eisinger led the investigation of former Manhattan DA Cy Vance, Jr. who prevented indictments of Ivanka and Don Jr. for felony fraud after receiving a campaign donation from a Trump family lawyer).   Finally, the second half of this week's bonus episode includes the live audience Q&A with Terrell Starr of the Black Diplomats podcast reporting from Kyiv. The audio of the first question was removed by request due to the personal nature of the matter: overcoming workplace abuse. If you or someone you know is struggling with an abusive workplace or related issues – whether it's in a corporation, a small business, or a partnership – seek legal help immediately. Contact your state's local bar association for lawyers willing to do pro bono work or a free consultation. In a time of great economic uncertainty, people are increasingly vulnerable to workplace abuse, whether financial, emotional, or both, and being exploited – so get the help and support you need by taking a meeting with a lawyer to know your rights. You will be glad you did.   Question for our audience: Given the Nazi viper den of Twittrer, and the harmful abuse there targeting vulnerable communities, what are some other social media sites that you're increasingly turning to and find helpful? Let us know in the comments!   Show Notes:   Everything you can do today to help asylum seekers in NYC https://nygroove.nyc/how-to-help-asylum-seekers-nyc/   Chaos in Staten Island: NYC protesters arrested trying to stop busses carrying migrants https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4oCBycM0RY   Attorney General Merrick Garland testifies before House Judiciary Committee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83nn4uq2Teo   Garland hears first real Democratic criticism from Rep. Cori Bush [Search article for Cori Bush's name] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/live-blog/merrick-garland-testimony-trump-hunter-biden-live-updates-rcna105680   Latest ProPublica Investigation: Clarence Thomas Secretly Participated in Koch Network Donor Events https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-secretly-attended-koch-brothers-donor-events-scotus   AOC leads call for Federal ethics investigation: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/12/aoc-democrats-federal-investigation-clarence-thomas   ‘So Much Suffering:' What Migrant Children Carry to New York https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/16/nyregion/nyc-migrant-crisis-mental-health.html#:~:text=Of%20the%20more%20than%20110%2C000,towering%20in%20their%20emotional%20complexit   Senate Finally Breaks Tommy Tuberville's Blockade—Kind ofhttps://www.thedailybeast.com/senate-finally-breaks-tommy-tubervilles-blockadekind-of   Trump Nazi https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/NYPICHPDPICT000026871283.jpg?resize=1536,1063&quality=75&strip=all   Neo-Nazis Gloat as Florida Becomes a Magnet for Hate https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/neo-nazis-thriving-florida-ron-desantis-1234824505/   Clarence Thomas' 38 Vacations: The Other Billionaires Who Have Treated the Supreme Court Justice to Luxury Travel https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-other-billionaires-sokol-huizenga-novelly-supreme-court   Merrick Garland's Eyes Wide Shut https://www.gaslitnationpod.com/episodes-transcripts-20/2021/6/9/merrick-garlands-eyes-wide-shut

Welcome to the recording of the live taping of Gaslit Nation featuring historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat, author of the bestselling book Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present, Russian mafia expert Olga Lautman, co-host of the Kremlin Files podcast, and reactions from our live audience. We recorded this episode at P&T Knitwear in New York City. Thank you to everyone who came out on a torrential rainy night. We hope to do another live event closer to the election.  In this episode, we discuss whether Putin and Trump are winning and how to stop them; how to navigate the hellscape during a time of cults on the far-right and far-left; why are Americans having Ukraine fatigue even though Russian fascism helps prop up the Republican Party threatening our own democracy, and how to build a livable future even when everything feels especially demoralizing and overwhelming. The live audience Q&A will run as an upcoming bonus episode. Thank you to everyone who joined the conversation!  This week's bonus episode is the live audience Q&A featuring Terrell Starr reporting from Ukraine during the recent virtual live taping of Gaslit Nation. That discussion includes how to stand up for yourself at work when you're being exploited and gaslit; what to do when those around you don't understand the urgency of the moment; and more! Thank you to everyone who keeps Gaslit Nation going especially during these difficult times. We could not make our show without you! Want to join the conversation? Subscribe to join our community of listeners at Patreon.com/Gaslit  We encourage you to check out the sponsors of this week's episode:  Cozy Earth provided an exclusive offer for our listener's today. Up to  35% off site wide when you use the code “GASLIT" Look out for upcoming interviews with Heather Cox Richardson sharing lessons from American history, her new book Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America, and the original Nazi hunter – Andrea's boyfriend Ulysses S. Grant. We'll also be joined by Jesse Eisinger, a Senior Editor at ProPublica and author of The Chickenshit Club Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives. Jesse is on the team exposing corruption on the Supreme Court and uncovered that former Manhattan DA Cy Vance, Jr. failed to charge Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump, Jr. in a fraud case.   

Nicolle Wallace discusses the tense hearing on Capitol Hill as John Durham testified about his post-Mueller investigation into intelligence agencies, a new sentencing for the January 6th rioter who tased Officer Michael Fanone, devastating reporting on another Supreme Court justice's ties to wealthy GOP donors, a new ruling striking down Arkansas' ban on healthcare for transgender youth, the anniversary of the Dobbs decision, and more. Joined by: Charlie Savage, Garrett Haake, John Brennan, Rep. Adam Schiff, Ryan Reilly, Harry Litman, Jesse Eisinger, Brian Fallon, Tim Miller, Sen. Alex Padilla, and Mara Gay.

Jesse Eisinger of ProPublica joins the podcast to discuss their investigation into the gifts, travel, tuition, rent and other benefits lavished on Justice Thomas directly—or indirectly for the benefit of family members—by right-wing billionaire, Harlan Crow. Jesse discusses the initial article, the tips they received with additional information after publishing it, and the political backlash to their reporting.

On this special episode of Live from The Compound, Jesse Eisinger (senior editor and reporter at ProPublica) joins Michael Batnick and Josh Brown to discuss UBS acquiring Credit Suisse, ProPublica's new insider trading expose, and much more!Jesse Eisinger is an American journalist and author. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2011, he currently works as a senior editor and reporter for ProPublica. He is the author of “The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives.”Jesse's book: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Chickenshit-Club/Jesse-Eisinger/9781501121371Check out the latest in financial blogger fashion at The Compound shop: https://www.idontshop.comInvesting involves the risk of loss. This podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be or regarded as personalized investment advice or relied upon for investment decisions. Michael Batnick and Josh Brown are employees of Ritholtz Wealth Management and may maintain positions in the securities discussed in this video. All opinions expressed by them are solely their own opinion and do not reflect the opinion of Ritholtz Wealth Management.Wealthcast Media, an affiliate of Ritholtz Wealth Management, receives payment from various entities for advertisements in affiliated podcasts, blogs and emails. Inclusion of such advertisements does not constitute or imply endorsement, sponsorship or recommendation thereof, or any affiliation therewith, by the Content Creator or by Ritholtz Wealth Management or any of its employees. For additional advertisement disclaimers see here https://ritholtzwealth.com/advertising-disclaimers. Investments in securities involve the risk of loss. Any mention of a particular security and related performance data is not a recommendation to buy or sell that security. The information provided on this website (including any information that may be accessed through this website) is not directed at any investor or category of investors and is provided solely as general information.Obviously nothing on this channel should be considered as personalized financial advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any securities. See our disclosures here:https://ritholtzwealth.com/podcast-youtube-disclosures/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jesse Eisinger on the Campbell Conversations.

On this week's episode of Lever Time: A few weeks ago, House Republicans passed a bill to cancel new Internal Revenue Service funding. David Sirota sits down with journalist and tax policy expert Jesse Eisinger, who provides much-needed context on the GOP's push to defund one of our most integral government agencies. (Yes, the IRS really is necessary.) Jesse explains how the modest investments passed by Democrats would help the beleaguered IRS hold accountable our worst tax cheats and create billions of dollars in new revenue, and how Republican efforts to defund the agency would lead to even more of its chronically lax oversight (12:08).If you'd like access to Lever Time Premium, which includes extended interviews and bonus content, head over to LeverNews.com to become a supporting subscriber.If you'd like to leave a tip for The Lever, click the following link. It helps us do this kind of independent journalism. levernews.com/tipjarA rough transcript of this episode is available here.To learn more about advertising on The Lever's podcasts, email us at levertime@levernews.com.

Taxes and slavery are intertwined in ways most people can't imagine. Join Dr. Carol François and Kourtney Square as they trace how taxing plantation owners on the enslaved people they held in bondage lead to economic shortcomings in the South that still resonate today. Want more? Go to https://www.podpage.com/why-are-they-so-angry/ for more unknown and untold history. Citations A permanent wound: How the slave tax warped Alabama finances #BlackTaxpayersMatter: Anti-Racist Restructuring of US Tax Systems Dorothy Brown: Tax Code Is 'Designed to Build White Wealth' Property Taxes on Slaves | Encyclopedia.com Opinion: America's tax system is rigged to protect the rich and powerful - CNN “The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax,” Jesse Eisinger, Jeff Ernsthausen and Paul Kiel, Pro Publica, June 8, 2021 https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax?fbclid=IwAR2sisB2eQBU5Bf28-uaBG_6toFofV063r28CgreD5dKtz0JMv4LOt3jDws --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/carol-francois/support

Today Bennett and Cas are proud to have Francine McKenna, former auditor, current journalist, and soon to be professor at Wharton, to talk to us about all the problems with auditing, cryptocurrencies, and, let's face it, Tether's totally garbage attestations. Francine's newsletter: https://thedig.substack.com The Chickenshit Club by Jesse Eisinger: https://www.amazon.com/Chickenshit-Club-Department-Prosecute-Executives/dp/1501121375/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Dave Michaels' article on The Big Four: https://www.wsj.com/articles/big-four-accounting-firms-come-under-regulators-scrutiny-11647364574

Amanda Rose is a professor at Vanderbilt Law School where she works as a scholar on securities law and the institutional design of the regulatory regimes enforcing those laws. Amanda joins Macro Musings to talk about the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), its work and role in promoting financial stability, and her research on the SEC. Amanda and David specifically discuss the politics, governance, and politicization of the SEC, the mission of the agency, and the major issues that it must face moving forward.   Check out Conversations with Tyler: https://conversationswithtyler.com, and subscribe to Conversations with Tyler on your favorite podcast app.   Transcript for the episode can be found here: https://www.mercatus.org/bridge/tags/macro-musings Amanda's Vanderbilt Law profile: https://law.vanderbilt.edu/bio/amanda-rose   Related Links:   *Calculating SEC Whistleblower Awards: A Theoretical Approach* by Amanda Rose https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2143&context=faculty-publications   *SPAC Mergers, IPOs, and the PSLRA's Safe Harbor: Unpacking Claims of Regulatory Arbitrage* by Amanda Rose https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3945975   *A Response to Calls for SEC-Mandated ESG Disclosure* by Amanda Rose https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6545&context=law_lawreview   *Should the Securities and Exchange Commission Adopt a Mandatory ESG-Disclosure Framework?* by Amanda Rose https://www.mercatus.org/publications/financial-markets/should-securities-and-exchange-commission-adopt-mandatory-esg   *SEC Announces Enforcement Results for FY 2021* by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2021-238   *The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives* by Jesse Eisinger https://www.sandmanbooks.com/book/9781501121371   *Can NFTs Be Securities? The SEC Says Yes* by PYMNTS https://www.pymnts.com/nfts/2022/pymnts-nft-series-can-nfts-be-securities-the-sec-says-yes/   *Crypto Exchanges Will Face More Scrutiny, Says SEC Chair* by Rahul Nambiampurath https://finance.yahoo.com/news/crypto-exchanges-face-more-scrutiny-150149395.html#:~:text=SEC%20Chair%20Gary%20Gensler%20has,world%20are%20scrutinizing%20crypto%20exchanges.   David's Twitter: @DavidBeckworth David's blog: http://macromarketmusings.blogspot.com/

Chris and Kurt sit down with Jesse Eisinger, senior editor at ProPublica, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist covering the financial markets and the 2008 financial crisis, and author of The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives (2017). Their conversation focuses on reporting in the securities markets, his prophetic (and award-winning) writing about the fall of the housing market and its impacts, and his recent work as a consultant on the hit HBO show Succession.   Links for shownotes: “The Giant Pool of Money,” This American Life, https://www.thisamericanlife.org/355/the-giant-pool-of-money “You May Be Paying a Higher Tax Rate Than a Billionaire,” ProPublica, https://www.propublica.org/article/you-may-be-paying-a-higher-tax-rate-than-a-billionaire The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives, www.amazon.com/Chickenshit-Club-Department-Prosecute-Executives/dp/1501121367     

How do you become one of the premier investigative journalists at one of the premier publishers of investigative journalism? In general, how do you excel in an area with no established path? I consider figuring out how essential in leading others.I feel sad when I hear people say, "I'd like to help the environment, but there are no jobs in it." Of course not! When culture is the problem, following others won't solve it. Leading others requires leading yourself first.Jesse and I have known each other since college in the 1980s, so he shares his path from the start. On the surface, you'll hear him describe his failures, yet he kept rising to more responsibilities. Listen between the lines to hear what prompted the rise. I heard integrity, passion, persistence, vision, and intangibles that don't show up on resumes, but lead to success. What do you hear?After his personal story, Jesse shares his take of American values and culture and how it's changed in his professional lifetime. He hints at what he's working on next.The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income TaxThe Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives,The Wall Street Money Machine See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ever wonder how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Michael Bloomberg got away with paying no federal income taxes for a few years and you didn't? ProPublica senior editor and reporter Jesse Eisinger discusses the popular article he co-authored in June 2021, “The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax” and how the current tax system is rigged for the ultra-wealthy. We also discuss Julian Assange, the Build Back Better Act, the Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster, Donald Trump's tax returns, and how federal COVID-19 relief money was spent. In 2011, Eisinger won a Pulitzer Prize award for National Reporting for his and Jake Bernstein's reporting on questionable Wall Street practices that contributed to the 2008 United States financial crisis. In 2017, Eisinger released his book “The Chicken Sh*t Club” about how the U.S. Justice Department went light on corporate criminals after Enron. Copyright © 2021 Jeremy Brannon. All Rights Reserved. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mothmaninthebiblebelt/support

Behind the News, 12/16/21 - guests: Sam Adler-Bell on the young counterrevolutionaries; Jesse Eisinger on how the very rich pay no taxes - Doug Henwood

Episode 173 of the Sports Media Podcast features three guests. First up is a roundtable with Kavitha Davidson, a correspondent for HBO's Real Sports and a longtime sports and business writer, and Jane McManus, the Director of the Marist's Center for Sports Communication and a Deadspin sports columnist. They are followed by Jesse Eisinger, a senior editor and reporter at ProPublica. In April 2011, Eisinger and a colleague won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for a series of stories on questionable Wall Street practices that helped make the financial crisis the worst since the Great Depression. In this podcast, Davidson and McManus discuss what they see as the biggest sports stories for 2022 including athletes continuing to talk about mental health publicly; the prospect of a major gambling scandal in sports and potential corruption of college players for information to aid bettors;  NILs and market creativity forcing the NCAA to completely reevaluate revenue structure; F1 continuing to balloon in the States;women's sports finally getting their financial due; Amazon becoming more of an NFL presence; leagues are going to have to deal with the China question; a total reimagining of what the role of coach is and much more. Eisinger discusses his recent piece on real estate and oil tycoons avoiding paying federal income taxes including Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross; how widespread are income-tax avoiders among the ultrawealthy sports owners; how one goes about doing this kind of reporting; the lack of congressional oversight for tax loopholes; how sports owners use their teams to avoid millions in taxes; why the sports public does not revolt, and more.  You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ralph welcomes Stacy Mitchell, co-director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance to talk about how enforcing anti-trust laws would lead to more decentralized and productive local economies. And Pro Publica's Jesse Eisinger joins us to explain how Republican anti-tax groups have starved the IRS budget, which leads to billions of dollars of uncollected taxes from the wealthy. Plus, Ralph answers your questions.  

Journalist Jesse Eisinger joins Adam to explain how he and his colleagues at ProPublica exposed how little billionaires pay in taxes – often, nothing at all – and the underhanded techniques they use to do it.

Sirota talks to ProPublica's Jesse Eisinger about the recent leak of IRS data showing how billionaires are able to accumulate vast wealth while paying so little in taxes. Recent analyses have estimated that every year, the richest 1 percent are not paying between $174 billion and $250 billion of taxes they owe. The documents leaked to ProPublica illustrate how tax loopholes, preferences and shelters allow moguls such as Jeff Bezos and Warren Buffett to pay a lower effective tax rate than everyone else. Eisinger also reviews the story of how right-wing billionaire Peter Thiel used stock valuations and a Roth IRA - which was designed for middle-class Americans - to tax shelter roughly $5 billion of wealth. The discussion concludes with a review of new legislative proposals to rebuild the IRS so that the agency can better police billionaire tax avoidance.

They say that no one can avoid death...or taxes. But that might not be true for some of the United States' top 1%. Jesse Eisinger of ProPublica breaks down the numbers and information about what some of the wealthiest Americans might not be paying...and how it's legal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Biden-Putin Summit and the Press Conferences That Followed | Why is Putin Supporting the Far-Right Rabble Who Stormed the Capitol? | The ProPublica Reporter Who Revealed the Secret IRS Files backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

At the first G7 meeting in two years, leaders of the world's largest economies look to present a unified front against authoritarian aggression. Senior director for Europe on U.S. National Security Council Amanda Sloat joins Bianna Golodryga, standing in for Christiane Amanpour, to discuss. And as Biden gets ready to meet Putin in Geneva, Russia has all but liquidated Alexey Navalny's opposition movement this week. A Moscow court designated the two organisations linked to the Kremlin critic as “extremist” groups, forcing them to shut down, a charge they deny. Vladimir Ashurkov, the executive director of Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation, weighs in. Pulitzer prize-winning ProPublica reporter Jesse Eisinger speaks to our Hari Sreenivasan about how the world's richest men - Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Rupert Murdoch, to name a few - legally work the system to avoid paying more than a fraction of their earnings in tax. And finally, are you ready to return to the office? As more businesses welcome employees back into workspaces, psychology professor and author of "iGen" Jean Twenge, explains how manage the transition. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy

ProPublica received a trove of Internal Revenue Service data showing that the wealthiest Americans "sidestep" income taxes, legally. Jesse Eisinger, senior reporter and editor at ProPublica and the author of the The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives (Simon & Schuster, 2017), talks about his reporting, and what it says about the inequality baked into the U.S. tax system.

Newly released IRS documents show how the nation's tax enforcement treats the rich differently, often to their benefit. On Today's Show:ProPublica received a trove of IRS data showing that the wealthiest Americans "sidestep" income taxes, legally. Jesse Eisinger, senior reporter and editor at ProPublica, talks about his reporting, and what it says about the inequality baked into the US tax system.

This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Stacy-Marie Ishmael talk about the ProPublica report on the tax returns of US billionaires, how Uber prices are changing and what it means, and the consequences of Bitcoin becoming legal tender in El Salvador.  In the Plus segment: UI fraud. Mentioned in the show: “The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax” by Jesse Eisinger, Jeff Ernsthausen and Paul Kiel for ProPublica “We Ran the Treasury Department. This Is How to Fix Tax Evasion.” by Timothy F. Geithner, Jacob J. Lew, Henry M. Paulson Jr., Robert E. Rubin and Lawrence H. Summers for the New York Times “Farewell, Millennial Lifestyle Subsidy” by Kevin Roose for the New York Times “Cryptocurrency Comes to Retirement Plans as Coinbase Teams Up With 401(k) Provider” by Anne Tergesen for The Wall Street Journal  “There's a New Vision for Crypto, and It's Wildly Different From Bitcoin” by Joe Weisenthal for Bloomberg  “Half of the Pandemic's Unemployment Money May Have Been Stolen” by Felix Salmon for Axios Email: slatemoney@slate.com Podcast production by Jessamine Molli. Twitter: @felixsalmon, @EmilyRPeck, @s_m_i  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Stacy-Marie Ishmael talk about the ProPublica report on the tax returns of US billionaires, how Uber prices are changing and what it means, and the consequences of Bitcoin becoming legal tender in El Salvador.  In the Plus segment: UI fraud. Mentioned in the show: “The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax” by Jesse Eisinger, Jeff Ernsthausen and Paul Kiel for ProPublica “We Ran the Treasury Department. This Is How to Fix Tax Evasion.” by Timothy F. Geithner, Jacob J. Lew, Henry M. Paulson Jr., Robert E. Rubin and Lawrence H. Summers for the New York Times “Farewell, Millennial Lifestyle Subsidy” by Kevin Roose for the New York Times “Cryptocurrency Comes to Retirement Plans as Coinbase Teams Up With 401(k) Provider” by Anne Tergesen for The Wall Street Journal  “There's a New Vision for Crypto, and It's Wildly Different From Bitcoin” by Joe Weisenthal for Bloomberg  “Half of the Pandemic's Unemployment Money May Have Been Stolen” by Felix Salmon for Axios Email: slatemoney@slate.com Podcast production by Jessamine Molli. Twitter: @felixsalmon, @EmilyRPeck, @s_m_i  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The ultrarich have ways of avoiding paying income tax that regular people simply don't have access to. This unfair balance-tipping is the subject of new reporting by ProPublica investigators, whose sources furnished them with a trove of data revealing the secrets of the megawealthy. ProPublica editor in chief Stephen Engelberg joins Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman and Victoria Bassetti to discuss their reporting.Plus, get a sneak peek of the new season of the critically-acclaimed podcast Conspiracyland. Season 3: The Secret Lives and Brutal Death of Jamal Khashoggi debuts on Monday, June 14th.GUEST:Stephen Engelberg (@SteveEngelberg), editor in chief, ProPublicaHOSTS:Michael Isikoff (@Isikoff), Chief Investigative Correspondent, Yahoo NewsDaniel Klaidman (@dklaidman), Editor in Chief, Yahoo NewsVictoria Bassetti (@VBass), fellow, Brennan Center for Justice (contributing co-host) RESOURCES:“Conspiracyland Season 3: The Secret Lives and Brutal Death of Jamal Khashoggi“The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax” by Jesse Eisinger, Jeff Ernsthausen, and Paul Kiel (June 8; ProPublica)“Why We Are Publishing the Tax Secrets of the .001%” by Stephen Engelberg and Richard Tofel (June 8; ProPublica)“An Exposé Has Congress Rethinking How to Tax the Superrich” by Jonathan Weisman and Alan Rappeport (June 9; New York Times)“ProPublica's Jesse Eisinger on his reporting about ultra-wealthy tax avoidance” (June 9; CNBC) Follow us on Twitter: @SkullduggeryPodListen and subscribe to "Skullduggery" on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.Email us with feedback, questions or tips: SkullduggeryPod@yahoo.com. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The story made waves in Washington, D.C., this week: The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax. ProPublica obtained private tax data from America's 25 wealthiest individuals, which revealed exactly how those people manage, through legal means, to pay far less income tax than most Americans — and sometimes, none at all. ProPublica senior editor and reporter Jesse Eisinger explains how it works to NPR's Rachel Martin. After the story's publication, some lawmakers reacted with concern about the fairness of the tax code. Oregon Democrat Ron Wyden, who chairs the Senate Finance Committee, explains a proposal to make it more equitable. He spoke to NPR's Ailsa Chang. Additional reporting on the history of the income tax from NPR's daily economics podcast The Indicator and Steven Weisman's 2010 appearance on All Things Considered. In participating regions, you'll also hear a local news segment that will help you make sense of what's going on in your community.Email us at considerthis@npr.org.

The story made waves in Washington, D.C., this week: The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax. ProPublica obtained private tax data from America's 25 wealthiest individuals, which revealed exactly how those people manage, through legal means, to pay far less income tax than most Americans — and sometimes, none at all. ProPublica senior editor and reporter Jesse Eisinger explains how it works to NPR's Rachel Martin. After the story's publication, some lawmakers reacted with concern about the fairness of the tax code. Oregon Democrat Ron Wyden, who chairs the Senate Finance Committee, explains a proposal to make it more equitable. He spoke to NPR's Ailsa Chang. Additional reporting on the history of the income tax from NPR's daily economics podcast The Indicator and Steven Weisman's 2010 appearance on All Things Considered. In participating regions, you'll also hear a local news segment that will help you make sense of what's going on in your community.Email us at considerthis@npr.org.

Tonight: Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez on the lawmakers blocking federal election, the state of our democracy and much more. Then, the gaping holes of what we don't know after today's Senate report on January 6th—and the new calls for a new investigation. Plus, how Trump TV has memory-holed the insurrection for half the country. And bombshell reporting from ProPublica that Jeff Bezos and many of America's wealthiest billionaires pay little or no taxes at all.Guests: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Sen. Gary Peters, Brian Stelter, Jesse Eisinger 

Instagram is making a big play for influencers, rolling out new money-making features for content creators in its first ever “Creator Week.” Instagram head Adam Mosseri, discusses the new tools and his social media strategy, and he compares Facebook's approach to revenue with Apple's. ProPublica is reporting data from the IRS, revealing how American billionaires like Warren Buffett, Carl Icahn, and Elon Musk have avoided paying income taxes. Jesse Eisinger, senior reporter and editor for ProPublica, shares his team's motivation for publishing the data and his vision for its impact. Plus, meme stock mania continues to rock Wall Street and Reddit, rising labor costs could be hitting your Chipotle budget, and El Salvador is taking cryptocurrency seriously.

Real Vision Live Replay: Jim Chanos recently remarked that we are in a golden age of fraud, highlighting that companies trade unaffected by credible public accusations for years before it finally catches up to them. But even after the house cards collapses, the executives in charge of these companies often go unpunished and shareholders are left holding the bag. In America, this wasn’t always the case. Pulitzer prize winning author and senior reporter and editor at ProPublica, Jesse Eisinger, penned the definitive historical account of this devolution in his book "The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives" and in this first installment of a series of interviews focussed on white-collar crime and its affects on markets with Quinton Mathews, managing member of QKM, the pair reexamine this history to explore how we got from regulatory institutions dishing out multi-year sentences in the Enron scandal to almost no prison time or charges being filed against bank executives in the GFC and the potential actions needed to remedy this broken system. Recorded on October 14, 2020. Key Learnings: Eisinger and Mathews highlight the hollowing out of the regulatory bodies charged with investigating and prosecuting these crimes and the misaligned incentivizes for ambitious young attorneys as the biggest problems. They concluded that increased funding for regulators and diversity in hiring of prosecutors are some of the many changes need to improve the system. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hele verden følger spent med på innspurten i den amerikanske presidentvalgkampen, og i den anledning kommer TaxCast med en egen USA-valg spesial.Gjest i denne episoden er redaktør, forfatter og Pulitzer-vinnende journalist, Jesse Eisinger fra ProPublica. Han følger amerikansk politikk og økonomi tett, og snakker med oss om hvordan det amerikanske skattevesenet har blitt strupet, og om hva vi vet om Trumps finanser. I tillegg ser vi fremover - hva kan vi forvente dersom Biden vinner valget?I studio var progamleder Peter Ringstad og Ingrid Hjertaker. Miks og musikk av Kristoffer Lislegaard. Foto: ProPublica

US officials said the record settlement reflected Goldman's "central" role in a "massive corruption scheme". Goldman admitted it had fallen "short", calling it an "institutional failure". In all, the investment bank is due to pay about $5bn in penalties - about two thirds of its 2019 profits - to regulators around the world, to resolve cases that have severely tarnished the firm's reputation. Also - with the final US presidential debate just an hour away, we talk to the president of the university hosting the event. And - Walmart - America's world's biggest retailer - has sued the US government in what's widely seen as a pre-emptive strike because it thinks the Department of Justice will come after it for the way it's been selling pharmaceutical products. We hear about the long-standing DOJ investigation of Walmart from Jesse Eisinger from Pro Publica. Plus - where do your main street brand clothes really come from? We look into how the coronavirus is threatening hundreds of thousands of jobs in the Asia-Pacific garment trade. With guests Mitchell Hartman in the US and Lien Hoang in Vietnam. PHOTO: Getty Images

"Shitshow", "disaster", "disgrace" - just some of the words used to describe the first 2020 U.S. Presidential Debate between President Trump and Former Vice President Biden. Despite this, there are some policy issues worthy of discussion. Who's saying what? Who's making credible arguments? And who's full of shit?Please subscribe, leave a 5-star review, and tell your friends about the show. Thank you!***References:‘Amy Coney Barrett: Trump nominates conservative favourite for Supreme Court’, BBC.‘Supreme Court Justices Split Along Unexpected Lines In 3 Cases’, Nina Tontenberg,NPR.‘What Happened With Merrick Garland In 2016 And Why It Matters Now’, Ron Elving, NPR.‘A Long List of GOP Senators Who Promised Not to Confirm a Supreme Court Nominee During an Election Year’, Tim Murphy, Mother Jones.‘Justice Kennedy’s Retirement Will Lead to a More Divided Supreme Court’, Oliver Gladfelter, The Data Face.‘How Trump’s Prescription Drug Executive Orders Reduce Costs For Seniors & Taxpayers’, Avik Roy, Forbes.‘If Trump wins, 20 million people could lose health insurance. If Biden wins, 25 million could gain it.’, Dylan Scott, Vox.‘Closer Look: Trump, Biden Plans on Health Care’, Nick Tate, Web MD.‘President Donald J. Trump Is Implementing His America First Healthcare Agenda’, White House.‘Trump’s Executive Orders on Prescription Drugs’, Lori Robertson, FactCheck.org.‘Opinion: Trump’s executive order on health care is no replacement for Obamacare — here’s why’, Simon F. header, MarketWatch.‘Comparing the Economic Plans of Trump and Biden’, Deborah D’Souza, Investopedia.‘The Real Problem Behind The $26.8 Trillion U.S. National Debt’, Seeking Alpha.United States Government Debt to GDP, Trading Economics.‘US National Debt by Year Compared to GDP and Major Events’, Kimberly Amadeo & Michael J Boyle, The Balance.‘How the Coronavirus Bailout Repeats 2008’s Mistakes: Huge Corporate Payoffs With Little Accountability’, Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica.‘The Anatomy of the $2 Trillion COVID-19 Stimulus Bill’, Nick Routley, Visual Capitalist. ‘How the world’s greatest financial experiment enriched the rich’, Christopher Thompson, NewStatesman.‘The ballooning money supply may be the key to unlocking inflation in the U.S.’, Thomas Franck, CNBC.‘The controversial 1994 crime law that Joe Biden helped write, explained’, German Lopez, Vox.‘Biden vs. Trump: Who’s the Actual Criminal Justice Reformer?, Politico.‘Is Critical Race Theory racist?, Helen Pluckrose, Unherd.‘Proud Boys chairman condemns white supremacists, says Trump’s message of ‘stand by’ wasn’t call to action’, Amy Viteri, Local10.‘The Trump administration already made huge refugee cuts. It’s making more.’, Nicole Narea, Vox.‘Travel Ban Updates: Temporary Ban of Foreign Nationals Traveling From Mainland China Per Novel Coronavirus Outbreak; Additional Countries Added To Travel Ban 3.0’, National Law Review.‘Trump dismantles environmental protections under cover of coronavirus’, Emily Holden, The Guardian.‘What Joe Biden was trying to say about the Green New Deal’, David Roberts, Vox.Joebiden.com‘The year of mail-in voting: Why this year’s U.S. election could take weeks to decide’, Emerald Bensadoun, Global News.‘US election: Do postal ballots lead to voting fraud?’, BBC.‘EAVS DEEP DIVE: EARLY, ABSENTEE AND MAIL VOTING’, White Paper, U.S. Election Assistance Commission.***Music: Julian AngelatosArtwork: Nerpa Mate

Jesse Eisinger and Alex Sammon speak with Cenk on The Conversation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

China Gives $2 Billion to the WHO While the US Cuts Funds and Blames Them for the Pandemic | While Main Street is Hurting, a Wall Street Hedge Fund is up 80% | The Likelihood a Defeated Trump Will Refuse to Leave Office backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Social science research confirms what seems obvious: our decisions don’t occur in a void, but rather are hugely influenced by our peers and social context. Society influences our behavior but, in turn, our behavior influences society. To put it another way, our social behaviors are contagious. Because of our respective environments, we may feel compelled to cheat on our taxes, drive heavy cars, or waste energy, because that’s what our peers are doing. In his new book, Under The Influence: Putting Peer Pressure to Work, Cornell economist and New York Times columnist Robert H. Frank combines psychological insight with economics to argue that we can’t build public policy on the assumption that individuals will make completely independent decisions. Most of our choices—whether it’s to buy an SUV or an electric car, to bike or drive or take the bus to work, to smoke or quit—are shaped by the society we live in. So why don’t we use the insights of behavioral contagion to push society in the direction we want it to go? Frank argues that we should, by using government policies—and especially taxes—in a much more clever and targeted way than before.Go beyond the episode:Robert H. Frank’s Under the Influence: Putting Peer Pressure to WorkRead his essay about how individual decisions can produce cascading effects: “How peer pressure can stop climate change”For more on how behavioral cascades happen, check out the 1992 study, “A Theory of Fads, Fashion, Custom, and Cultural Change as Informational Cascades”Why tax evasion is trendy: read Jesse Eisinger and Paul Kiel’s story, “The IRS Tried to Take on the Ultrawealthy. It Didn’t Go Well.”People who buy bigger houses aren’t happier, those who spent more on lavish weddings don’t stay married longer, and other examples of why spending money on material goods can’t buy you happinessTune in every week to catch interviews with the liveliest voices from literature, the arts, sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek. Follow us on Twitter @TheAmScho or on Facebook.Subscribe: iTunes • Feedburner • Stitcher • Google Play •

Social science research confirms what seems obvious: our decisions don’t occur in a void, but rather are hugely influenced by our peers and social context. Society influences our behavior but, in turn, our behavior influences society. To put it another way, our social behaviors are contagious. Because of our respective environments, we may feel compelled to cheat on our taxes, drive heavy cars, or waste energy, because that’s what our peers are doing. In his new book, Under The Influence: Putting Peer Pressure to Work, Cornell economist and New York Times columnist Robert H. Frank combines psychological insight with economics to argue that we can’t build public policy on the assumption that individuals will make completely independent decisions. Most of our choices—whether it’s to buy an SUV or an electric car, to bike or drive or take the bus to work, to smoke or quit—are shaped by the society we live in. So why don’t we use the insights of behavioral contagion to push society in the direction we want it to go? Frank argues that we should, by using government policies—and especially taxes—in a much more clever and targeted way than before.Go beyond the episode:Robert H. Frank’s Under the Influence: Putting Peer Pressure to WorkRead his essay about how individual decisions can produce cascading effects: “How peer pressure can stop climate change”For more on how behavioral cascades happen, check out the 1992 study, “A Theory of Fads, Fashion, Custom, and Cultural Change as Informational Cascades”Why tax evasion is trendy: read Jesse Eisinger and Paul Kiel’s story, “The IRS Tried to Take on the Ultrawealthy. It Didn’t Go Well.”People who buy bigger houses aren’t happier, those who spent more on lavish weddings don’t stay married longer, and other examples of why spending money on material goods can’t buy you happinessTune in every week to catch interviews with the liveliest voices from literature, the arts, sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek. Follow us on Twitter @TheAmScho or on Facebook.Subscribe: iTunes • Feedburner • Stitcher • Google Play • 

Could a wealth tax help reduce the vast income and wealth inequality in the country? It’s an idea that not only has the backing of two Democratic primary frontrunners - Sen. Bernie Sanders and Sen. Elizabeth Warren - but also enjoys wide public support. So what would it look like to have a wealth tax, who would end up paying, and why is Wall Street freaking out about it? And how did we get to this level of wealth inequality to begin with? There’s no one better to answer all these questions than Gabriel Zucman, an expert economist who worked with both campaigns to develop their wealth tax proposals based on his years of research.RELATED READING:The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them PayYOU MIGHT ALSO LIKECan We Tax the Rich? with Jesse Eisinger

Perhaps you’ve heard: Special counsel Robert Mueller testified on Wednesday. There’s plenty of analysis about who won and who didn’t. We’re skipping that part. Instead, on a special, speedy episode of Trump, Inc. we’re focusing on the few tidbits that were actually revealing and how it came to be that there weren’t more.  ProPublica’s Jesse Eisinger and Heather Vogell talk with WNYC’s Andrea Bernstein about the many things we didn’t learn and why. They discuss potential mistakes during the investigation, avenues Mueller didn’t explore and witnesses — like the president — he decided not to try to question in person. Mueller’s testimony is over. His report is done. And his office is closed. But there are plenty of critical yet unanswered questions remaining. And we’re still digging. Listen to the episode to hear what we still want to know.

Pulitzer Prize winning author Jesse Eisinger joins the podcast to talk about his colorfully named and provocative book “The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives.” We chat about political will, revolving doors and what Jesse calls “compliance theater”.

After years of waiting, journalists finally began digging into the redacted version of the Mueller report. On this week’s On the Media, how the special counsel’s findings confirm years of reporting about turmoil within the White House. Plus, what the Notre Dame fire and the Sacklers show us about the dark side of philanthropy, and how the Justice Department stopped prosecuting executives. And, an undercover investigation shines a light on the NRA’s PR machinery.  1. Eric Umansky [@ericuman], deputy editor at ProPublica and co-host of the Trump Inc. podcast, on the Mueller revelations. Listen. 2. Anand Giridharadas [@AnandWrites], author of Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, on the dark side of philanthropy. Listen. 3. Jesse Eisinger [@eisingerj], author of The Chickenshit Club, on how the Justice Department stopped prosecuting executives. Listen. 4. Peter Charley, executive producer of Al Jazeera's "How To Sell a Massacre," on the NRA's PR machinery. Listen. Songs: Okami by Nicola Cruz Capicua by Animal Chuki Colibria by Nicola Cruz Let's Face the Music and Dance by Harry Roy Lost, Night by Bill Frissell This is NRA Country by Justin Moore

Matt speaks with Jesse Eisinger, financial reporter for ProPublica and author of The Chickenshit Club about why white collar crimes are no longer prosecuted and the wealthy seem to have different rules than the rest of us. When is a "campaign contribution" just an old fashioned bribe?

**Listen for details on how to win tickets to our live WITHpod recording with Stacey Abrams!**Why is it so hard to raise taxes on the rich? From freshmen firebrands to Presidential hopefuls, taxing the wealthy has become the Congressional conversation du jour of 2019 that has no signs of slowing down. But before even getting into the policy debates and the ideological disputes, there’s one important and fundamental question that has to be answered: Do we have an IRS that has the capacity to do such a thing? ProPublica’s Jesse Eisinger has done stellar reporting to uncover the scandalous hidden story of the ways the Republican Party, corporate interests, and big donors have all succeeded in gutting the IRS of its ability to do the one thing it exists to do: collect taxes to fund the United States government. Email us at WITHpod@gmail.comTweet using #WITHpodRead more at nbcnews.com/whyisthishappeningRELATED READINGHow the IRS was GuttedThe Chickenshit Club by Jesse Eisinger

“Budget cuts have crippled the IRS over the past eight years. Enforcement staff has dropped by a third. But while the number of audits has fallen across the board, the impact has been different for the rich and poor,” reads Paul Keil and Jesse Eisinger’s ProPublica expose “Who’s More Likely to Be Audited: A Person Making $20,000 — or $400,000?” Can it really be that the IRS is ignoring millions of dollars of white collar tax fraud while cracking down on some of the country’s poorest citizens? In this installment of “Leonard Lopate at Large” on WBAI, Paul Keil and Jesse Eisinger join us in the studio to discuss their disturbing findings on exactly who the IRS audits.

Spoiler: Rich Americans are audited much less than the poor. Jesse Eisinger with ProPublica explains how gutting the IRS has enabled Americans to dodge about $660 billion in taxes every year — and the problem is getting worse. While Congress looks to cut programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security to make up budget shortfalls, the IRS no longer has the capacity to go after the wealthy, who are well aware they're unlikely to face an audit.

UNLOCKED from the bird feed to the main feed: Current Affairs host Pete Davis invites Jesse Eisinger — Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist with ProPublica and author of The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives — to the Current Affairs World Headquarters to enlighten us on the topic of corporate crime, feckless white collar prosecutors, and why we should care about the underfunding of the IRS. Read Jesse's piece on the IRS dropping the ball here. Read Jesse's piece on why only one banker went to jail after the financial crisis here. Read The New York Times' huge report on the Trump family tax fraud here. Read George Scialabba's new book, which Pete quoted at the end of the episode, here. Many thanks to the amazing Dan Thorn for editing help on this episode. To listen to interviews when they first come out — and gain access to our patrons' "Bird Feed" — consider becoming a monthly patron at our Patreon page. Call into Current Affairs anytime at (504) 867-8851.

An excerpt from today's bonus episode, available in full to our Patreon patrons, in which Current Affairs host Pete Davis invites Jesse Eisinger — Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist with ProPublica and author of The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives — to the Current Affairs World Headquarters to enlighten us on the topic of corporate crime, feckless white collar prosecutors, and why we should care about the underfunding of the IRS. To listen to this episode — and gain access to our patrons' "Bird Feed" — consider becoming a monthly patron at our Patreon page. Call into Current Affairs anytime at (504) 867-8851.

Air Date: 9/25/2018 Today we take a look at where we stand, now ten years on from the beginning of the Great Recession in 2008. Inequality has spiked, the banks are more profitable than ever and not a single banker went to jail for fraud. Now we must look ahead to how we can better manage the next inevitable crash. Be part of the show! Leave a message at 202-999-3991   Episode Sponsors: Pipeline Film | Bambas | SwingLeft   Amazon USA | Amazon CA | Amazon UK | Clean Choice Energy   Get AD FREE Shows & Bonus Content: Support Best of the Left on Patreon!   SHOW NOTES Ch. 1: As the banks crashed, inequality spiked - Angie Coiro hosting the Bradcast from @TheBradBlog - Air Date 9-17-18 Angie Coiro reading quotes from insiders from Lehman Brothers on the risks being taken before the crash and noting the spike in inequality in its wake. Ch. 2: Nomi Prins on the fallout of the bank bailouts - @ThisIsHellRadio - Air Date 5-8-18 Journalist Nomi Prins explains how central banks bought world power in an age of global crisis. Nomi is author of “Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigged the World” from Nation Books. Ch. 3: Rethinking economic indicators to improve our understanding - The Brian Lehrer Show - Air Date 9-17-18 New York Times columnist David Leonhardt argues that the financial crisis is not over, despite what standard economic measurements show, and points to alternative ways to measure GDP. Ch. 4: Harold Meyerson on why the recovery continued the disaster - Start Making Sense from @TheNation - Air Date 9-19-18 On the 10th anniversary of the financial crisis, Harold Meyerson argues that the recovery was a disaster all over again—and that we are still suffering from its political consequences. Harold is Executive Editor of The American Prospect. Ch. 5: F-Word: 10 Years On, The End of Capitalism is Easier to Imagine - @theLFshow w: @GRITlaura Flanders - Air Date 9-21-18 Not long after the financial crash of 2008, I heard someone say, “It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.” Is it? Ch. 6: The Left Must Get Ready to Seize the Next Financial Crisis - @TheRealNews - Air Date 7-22-18 Thomas Hanna: When the next global financial crisis hits, we need to be prepared to nationalize the banks and create a public banking sector, which will not only be a way out of the crisis but will also help prevent future crises. Ch. 7: Jesse Eisinger on why the Chickensh*t club doesn't prosecute bankers - @RalphNader Radio Hour - Air Date 3-3-18 Ever wonder why no bankers went to jail after the 2008 financial crisis? Investigative journalist, Jesse Eisinger, tells us why in his book, “The Chicken Shit Club.” Ch. 8: Why aren't more dishonest bankers in jail? - The Inquiry - Air Date 7-4-16 If you could find a way to nudge bankers towards better and safer choices, building a culture of integrity, you might avoid future financial trouble. But can you make bankers behave better?   VOICEMAILS Ch. 9: Further clarification on social democracy - Jeff from New York   Ch. 10: Final comments on the definitions of Democratic Socialism, social ownership and the future of cooperative ownership   THE MIDTERMS MINUTE  See previous battleground race spotlights and get the entire lay of the land at "The Midterms Minute H.Q." New battlegrounds spotlight coming next episode!  Written by BOTL Communications Director Amanda Hoffman    MUSIC: Opening Theme: Loving Acoustic Instrumental by John Douglas Orr  Denzel Sprak - CloudCover (Blue Dot Sessions) Interlude - The Nocturne (Blue Dot Sessions) Sunday Lights - Onesuch Village (Blue Dot Sessions) Open Flames - Aeronaut (Blue Dot Sessions) Tar and Spackle - Plaster (Blue Dot Sessions) Glass Beads - The Balloonist (Blue Dot Sessions) Heather - Migration (Blue Dot Sessions) Voicemail Music: Low Key Lost Feeling Electro by Alex Stinnent Closing Music: Upbeat Laid Back Indie Rock by Alex Stinnent   Produced by Jay! Tomlinson Thanks for listening! Visit us at BestOfTheLeft.com Support the show via Patreon Listen on iTunes | Stitcher| Spotify| Alexa Devices| +more Check out the BotL iOS/Android App in the App Stores! Follow at Twitter.com/BestOfTheLeft Like at Facebook.com/BestOfTheLeft Contact me directly at Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com Review the show on iTunes and Stitcher!

The Mueller investigation has revealed how easy it is to get away with white-collar crime in the United States. ProPublica’s Jesse Eisinger explains how we got here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jesse Eisinger, Senior Reporter at ProPublica and Author of "The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives," joins hosts Peter Cappelli and Iwan Barankay to discuss the world of White Collar Crime and whether or not the US has been cracking down on punishment of these crimes on In the Workplace.Book - https://www.amazon.com/Chickenshit-Club-Department-Prosecute-Executives/dp/1501121367 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Feliks Banel on the mystery man who directed the Denny Party toward Seattle in 1851 // Jesse Eisinger, author of The Chickensh*t Club, on why so many big financial crimes go un-prosecuted // Sports Insider Danny O'Neil on the new Seahawks backup QB/ Scott Servais' haircut/ the Storm playoff run // Hanna Scott explains Initiative-940 on police use of force // Joy Xi from Google on their new tool to help veterans find jobs

A few days ago, we held a live taping of the Trump, Inc. podcast at The Greene Space in New York City. Tony Schwartz, the co-author with Donald Trump of The Art of The Deal, talked with Ilya Marritz from WNYC and Jesse Eisinger from ProPublica about what Schwartz does and does not recognize in President Trump now. Then, ProPublica’s Eric Umansky and WNYC’s Andrea Bernstein spoke with Mark Schoofs, the Investigations Editor at Buzzfeed. Schoofs explained why he was the first journalist to post the Russian “dossier,” and what we’ve learned since. There was also a Trump, Inc. trivia contest. How do you think you’d do? Here two examples. For the answers, listen to the podcast!   1) The Trump Organization has partnered with developers M3M for projects in India. What does M3M stand for?      a) Magnificence in the Trinity Of Men, Materials & Money b) Money, Money, Money c) My Three Mates Make Money d) Mumbai Manufacturing and Materials   2) The largest contractor for the Trump inauguration was connected to the First Family how? a) Eric Trump’s former wedding planner b) Melania Trump’s friend c) Donald Trump’s former caddy d) Ivanka Trump’s former public relations advisor

White collar crime just isn't prosecuted the way it used to be. To find out why, we chat with Jesse Eisinger, author of "The Chickens*** Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives."

Ever wonder why no bankers went to jail after the 2008 financial crisis? Investigative journalist, Jesse Eisinger, tells us why in his book, “The Chicken Shit Club.”

Jesse Eisinger is a senior reporter and editor at ProPublica as well as a Pulitzer Prize winner. Today, he joins the show to discuss his new book *The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives.* Jesse argues that in recent years, the U.S. Justice Department has become excessively timid in prosecuting white collar crime on Wall Street and in the financial sector. David and Jesse discuss why this is a problem for the rule of law as well as some ways to reform the system. [To rate and review this podcast, go to: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/macro…d1099277290?mt=2 Then, leave your information at: www.mercatus.org/macromusings ] David’s blog: macromarketmusings.blogspot.com Macro Musings podcast site: macromusings.com David’s Twitter: @DavidBeckworth Jesse Eisinger’s Pro Publica Profile: https://www.propublica.org/people/jesse-eisinger Jesse Eisinger’s Twitter: @eisingerj Related links: *The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives* http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Chickenshit-Club/Jesse-Eisinger/9781501121364

Show #184 | Guest: Jesse Eisinger | Show Summary: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jesse Eisinger, unravels a culture of cowardice, incompetence and corruption — one that has allowed the FBI, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and above all the Department of Justice to flounder in their efforts to hold not only the government, but America’s financial institutions, accountable for their crimes.

In this episode, I interview with book author, Jesse Eisinger and Paul Pelletier, a key source for the book. The interview is fascinating and I urge you to take a listen for both the substance and the interplay between Eisinger and Pelletier. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bloomberg Markets with Carol Massar and Cory Johnson.u0010u0010GUESTS:u0010Jesse Eisingeru0010Senior Reporter and Authoru0010Pro Publica u0010Discussing his book on why the Justice Department fails to prosecute executives. Paul Pelletier,u0010Partner at Pepper Hamilton, and Kathryn Ruemmler, Partner and Global Co-Chair of the White Collar Defense & Investigations Practice at Latham & Watkins also participate in the conversation.

Bloomberg Markets with Carol Massar and Cory Johnson.u0010u0010GUESTS:u0010Jesse Eisingeru0010Senior Reporter and Authoru0010Pro Publica u0010Discussing his book on why the Justice Department fails to prosecute executives. Paul Pelletier,u0010Partner at Pepper Hamilton, and Kathryn Ruemmler, Partner and Global Co-Chair of the White Collar Defense & Investigations Practice at Latham & Watkins also participate in the conversation. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

It’s hard to believe that we’re coming up on the ninth anniversary of the financial crisis that contributed to the Great Recession. What’s frustrating and mystifying is how many people, or lack thereof, actually faced the music for contributing to the debacle. The anemic response from the Department of Justice sparked today’s guest, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Jesse Eisinger, to write The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives. How can it be that no major bankers were charged or put in prison after the financial crisis of 2008? The Chickenshit Club, an inside reference to those prosecutors who were too scared of failure and too daunted by legal impediments to execute the duties of their jobs, explains why. The pages span the last decade and a half of prosecutorial flops, corporate lobbying, trial losses and culture shifts that have stripped the government of the will and ability to prosecute top corporate executives. But it wasn’t always this way. In the 1970s, it was commonplace that top corporate executives, not just seedy crooks and drug dealers, could commit crimes and actually be sent to prison. What changed between then and now? Is it a problem that can be corrected? If so, how? The Chickenshit Club provides a clear, detailed explanation as to how our Justice Department has come to avoid, bungle, and mismanage the fight to bring white-collar criminals to justice. You can follow Jesse and his latest reporting on Twitter. “Better Off” is sponsored by Betterment. We love feedback so please leave us a rating or review in iTunes. "Better Off" theme music is by Joel Goodman, www.joelgoodman.com. For a recap of every episode, visit https://www.betterment.com/resources/topics/inside-betterment/better-off-podcast/ Connect with me at these places for all my content: http://www.jillonmoney.com/  https://twitter.com/jillonmoney  https://www.facebook.com/JillonMoney  https://www.instagram.com/jillonmoney/  https://www.youtube.com/c/JillSchlesinger  https://www.linkedin.com/in/jillonmoney/  https://soundcloud.com/jill-schlesinger  http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/jill-on-money  http://betteroffpodcast.com/  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/better-off-jill-schlesinger/id431167790?mt=2

(Bloomberg) -- Arthur Levitt, former chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, interviews Jesse Eisinger, senior reporter and editor at ProPublica and author of, “The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives.” on "A Closer Look With Arthur Levitt."

As a United States Attorney in 2002, James Comey mocked prosecutors who never lost a case as members of "The Chickenshit Club." In Comey's opinion, if a prosecuting attorney never lost, it meant they were too risk averse and failed to bring the most important cases to trial. In his book by the same name, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Jesse Eisinger of ProPublica argues that the entire Department of Justice has become a "Chickenshit Club" for prosecutors who are unwilling and unable to take on white-collar criminals at the biggest banks and financial firms. In the latest episode of The Breach, Eisinger and host Lindsay Beyerstein discuss how and why this occurs – despite these crimes threatening the stability of the economy and the basic principle of equality before the law. Recommended Reading: Possible Presidential Pardon Scenarios, by Andy Wright for Just Security, July 2017

Jesse Eisinger, the Pulitzer-winning journalist now working at ProPublica, tells Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz how the collapse of Arthur Andersen, Enron and WorldCom led to a neutered Justice Department. The title of his new book, "The Chickenshit Club," comes from a speech that then-Southern District U.S. Attorney James Comey gave to prosecutors saying that if they were never losing, they were only taking on easy cases. This interview aired on Bloomberg Radio.

This week, Jay and I return for a wide-ranging discussion on some of the week’s top compliance and ethics related stories, including:  Will Canada approve DPAs for use in anti-corruption prosecutions? TI-Canada recommends they come into use. See article in Corporate Compliance by clicking here. Also see interview with RCMP Superintendent Denis Desnoyers in GIR. Midyear FCPA enforcement report by Stanford Law Journal. See article in WSJ. The first half of 2017 has brought the final resolutions of only two FCPA matters from the new administration, but they were both declinations. Both declinations have significantly strengthened the FCPA Pilot Program as a clear path forward for every company that finds itself in FCPA hot water. See Tom’s article in Compliance Week. Are Mexican anti-corruption efforts moving forward or not. See pro see article entitled, New Mexican Anti-Corruption Law Enters into Force Global Compliance News. For con see article by Juan Montes Mexican Antigraft Efforts Falter, in WSJ. With the departure of Walter Shaub from the US Office of Governmental Ethics and Hui Chen as the Compliance Counsel, who will lead the US ethics and compliance efforts. See Jaclyn Jaeger’s article in the Compliance Week. Everything Compliance-Episode 14 is out. Topics include Walter Shaub’s departure from OGE and does it even matter? Jesse Eisinger’s book The Chickenshit Club; the SFO, UK Bribery Act and the Rolls-Royce enforcement action; differences in DPA practice in the US & UK; Trump Administration & FCPA enforcement; EU’s GDPR; and Hui Chen’s departure from Justice Department; both her public rebuke of Trump, and the substance of how she believes her guidance has been mis-interpreted. Episode 15 will go up on July 27. Former Haitian Telco exec pleads guilty, Dick Cassin reports in the FCPA Blog. Dmitrij Harder jailed five years for FCPA offenses. See article by Dick Cassin the FCPA Blog. The twins are back home from summer camp. What does it mean for the Rosen household? Jay previews his weekend report. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Jay and I return for a wide-ranging discussion on some of the week’s top compliance and ethics related stories, including:  Will Canada approve DPAs for use in anti-corruption prosecutions? TI-Canada recommends they come into use. See article in Corporate Compliance by clicking  here. Also see interview with RCMP Superintendent Denis Desnoyers in  GIR.Midyear FCPA enforcement report by Stanford Law Journal. See article in  WSJ.The first half of 2017 has brought the final resolutions of only two FCPA matters from the new administration, but they were both declinations. Both declinations have significantly strengthened the FCPA Pilot Program as a clear path forward for every company that finds itself in FCPA hot water. See Tom’s article in  Compliance Week.Are Mexican anti-corruption efforts moving forward or not. See pro see article entitled,  New Mexican Anti-Corruption Law Enters into Force Global Compliance News. For con see article by Juan Montes  Mexican Antigraft Efforts Falter, in WSJ.With the departure of Walter Shaub from the US Office of Governmental Ethics and Hui Chen as the Compliance Counsel, who will lead the US ethics and compliance efforts. See Jaclyn Jaeger’s article in the  Compliance Week.Everything Compliance-Episode 14 is out. Topics include Walter Shaub’s departure from OGE and does it even matter? Jesse Eisinger’s book The Chickenshit Club; the SFO, UK Bribery Act and the Rolls-Royce enforcement action; differences in DPA practice in the US & UK; Trump Administration & FCPA enforcement; EU’s GDPR; and Hui Chen’s departure from Justice Department; both her public rebuke of Trump, and the substance of how she believes her guidance has been mis-interpreted. Episode 15 will go up on July 27.Former Haitian Telco exec pleads guilty, Dick Cassin reports in the  FCPA Blog. Dmitrij Harder jailed five years for FCPA offenses. See article by Dick Cassin the  FCPA Blog.The twins are back home from summer camp. What does it mean for the Rosen household?Jay previews his weekend report. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on So That Happened: Zach Carter takes a break from book leave to return and host the show! He’s joined by ProPublica reporter Jesse Eisinger and Huffpost’s Alexander Kaufman to talk about why bankers never seem to go to jail. Then, Michelle Kuo stops by to talk about her book Reading With Patrick, a memoir about a teacher’s relationship with a gifted student who ends up jailed for murder. It's an exploration of race, class, justice, and coming of age in the South. Finally, Mike Konczal is back, this time to help Zach and Arthur celebrate the 7th birthday of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law. Will there be cake? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Jay and I return for a wide-ranging discussion on some of the week’s top compliance and ethics related stories, including: HSBC monitor report protected from release. See article in Reuters by clicking here. The Odebrecht scandal continues to resonate across South America. See Dick Cassin’s post in the FCPA Blog. The first half of 2017 has brought the final resolutions of only two FCPA matters from the new administration, but they were both declinations. Both declinations have significantly strengthened the FCPA Pilot Program as a clear path forward for every company that finds itself in FCPA hot water. See Tom’s article in Compliance Week. Roy Snell says it’s not who’s who but who gets it. See article in SCCE Compliance and Ethics Blog. Tom announces the rollout of the Compliance Podcast Network. It includes This Week in FCPA, FCPA Compliance Report, Compliance Report-International Edition, 12 O’Clock High, Unfair and Unbalanced, Compliance into the Weeds, Across the Board, Everything Compliance, One Month to a More Effective Compliance Program. See Tom’s article in the FCPA Compliance and Ethics Blog. The next Everything Compliance podcast is in production. Topics include Walter Shaub’s departure from OGE and does it even matter? Jesse Eisinger’s book The Chickenshit Club; the SFO, UK Bribery Act and the Rolls-Royce enforcement action; differences in DPA practice in the US & UK; Trump Administration & FCPA enforcement; EU’s GDPR; and Hui Chen’s departure from Justice Department; both her public rebuke of Trump, and the substance of how she believes her guidance has been mis-interpreted. Part I will go up on Thursday, July 20. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Jay and I return for a wide-ranging discussion on some of the week’s top compliance and ethics related stories, including: HSBC monitor report protected from release. See article in Reuters by clicking  here.The Odebrecht scandal continues to resonate across South America. See Dick Cassin’s post in the  FCPA Blog.The first half of 2017 has brought the final resolutions of only two FCPA matters from the new administration, but they were both declinations. Both declinations have significantly strengthened the FCPA Pilot Program as a clear path forward for every company that finds itself in FCPA hot water. See Tom’s article in  Compliance Week.Roy Snell says it’s not who’s who but who gets it. See article in SCCE Compliance and Ethics Blog.Tom announces the rollout of the Compliance Podcast Network. It includes This Week in FCPA, FCPA Compliance Report, Compliance Report-International Edition, 12 O’Clock High, Unfair and Unbalanced, Compliance into the Weeds, Across the Board, Everything Compliance, One Month to a More Effective Compliance Program. See Tom’s article in the FCPA Compliance and Ethics Blog.The next Everything Compliance podcast is in production. Topics include Walter Shaub’s departure from OGE and does it even matter? Jesse Eisinger’s book The Chickenshit Club; the SFO, UK Bribery Act and the Rolls-Royce enforcement action; differences in DPA practice in the US & UK; Trump Administration & FCPA enforcement; EU’s GDPR; and Hui Chen’s departure from Justice Department; both her public rebuke of Trump, and the substance of how she believes her guidance has been mis-interpreted. Part I will go up on Thursday, July 20. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why didn't any Wall Street bigwigs go to jail over the 2008 financial crisis? Unlike the failures of Enron, WorldCom and other corporate calamities, the collapses of Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns necessitated taxpayer bailouts, incinerated billions of dollars of retiree savings and torpedoed the global economy yet resulted in no criminal indictments. ProPublica reporter Jesse Eisinger argues that's because prosecutors joined "The Chickenshit Club," which is also the title of his new book. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Felix Salmon of Fusion, emerging-markets expert Anna Szymanski, author Jesse Eisinger, and archeologist Larry Coben discuss: -       The Chickenshit Club by Jesse Eisinger -       Sexual harassment in Silicon Valley -       Hobby Lobby’s attempted acquisition of ancient artifacts Check out other Panoply podcasts at panoply.fm. Email: slatemoney@slate.com Twitter: @LarryCoben, @eisingerj, @felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas Production by Daniel Schroeder Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Felix Salmon of Fusion, emerging-markets expert Anna Szymanski, author Jesse Eisinger, and archeologist Larry Coben discuss: -       The Chickenshit Club by Jesse Eisinger -       Sexual harassment in Silicon Valley -       Hobby Lobby’s attempted acquisition of ancient artifacts Check out other Panoply podcasts at panoply.fm. Email: slatemoney@slate.com Twitter: @LarryCoben, @eisingerj, @felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas Production by Daniel Schroeder Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this week which starts the 4th of July holiday weekend, Jay and I return for a wide-ranging discussion on some of the week’s top compliance related stories, including:  The second Declination of the Session’s Justice Department, CDM Smith. For a copy of the Declination click here. For article in the FCPA Blog, click here.  The son of Equatorial Guinea's president went on trial this week in France for embezzlement of funds from the country. See trial reports of Days 2 & 3 in the Global Anti-Corruption Blog. Is the DOJ afraid to go to trial in white collar prosecutions. Jesse Eisinger considers this issue in his new book The Chickenshit Club. See review of Eisinger’s book in the Financial Times by clicking here.   Tom nominates former Uber engineer Susan Fowler for top blog of the year (so far). Who is your nominee from the first half of the year? See Tom’s article in the FCPA Blog.  Hui Chen talks to Matt Kelly on a podcast on Radical Compliance. Jay discusses his weekend report, which came out yesterday. You can read by clicking here. At nearly the half-way mark, the Astros lead the majors with the best record. Tom announces the premier of the Compliance Podcast Network, which will make its debut the week of July 10. It will be the only Podcasting Network dedicated to compliance, the compliance profession and compliance practitioners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this week which starts the 4th of July holiday weekend, Jay and I return for a wide-ranging discussion on some of the week’s top compliance related stories, including:  The second Declination of the Session’s Justice Department, CDM Smith. For a copy of the Declination click here. For article in the FCPA Blog, click  here. The son of Equatorial Guinea's president went on trial this week in France for embezzlement of funds from the country. See trial reports of Days 2 & 3 in the  Global Anti-Corruption Blog.Is the DOJ afraid to go to trial in white collar prosecutions. Jesse Eisinger considers this issue in his new book  The Chickenshit Club. See review of Eisinger’s book in the Financial Times by clicking  here.  Tom nominates former Uber engineer Susan Fowler for top blog of the year (so far). Who is your nominee from the first half of the year? See Tom’s article in the  FCPA Blog. Hui Chen talks to Matt Kelly on a podcast on  Radical Compliance.Jay discusses his weekend report, which came out yesterday. You can read by clicking  here.At nearly the half-way mark, the Astros lead the majors with the best record.Tom announces the premier of the Compliance Podcast Network, which will make its debut the week of July 10. It will be the only Podcasting Network dedicated to compliance, the compliance profession and compliance practitioners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The businessmen President-elect Donald Trump picked to lead the country's economic team testified before the Senate in their confirmation hearings this week, giving a preview of how they might run the county's finances, and whether they're in line with the policies of their soon-to-be boss. During his hearing, Commerce Secretary nominee Wilbur Ross, who made money buying and then later selling failing businesses, told senators he wasn't against international trade, but he would consider tariffs that ensured the U.S. didn't get the short end of the deal. Treasury Secretary nominee Steven Mnuchin, a former Goldman Sachs backer, said that while he wasn't against regulation, he was for loosening limits on banks, especially small to medium-sized ones.  This week on Money Talking, Charlie Herman takes a look what the hearings revealed about Trump's picks with Sheelah Kolhatkar of The New Yorker and Jesse Eisinger of ProPublica.  

Slate's Chief Political Correspondent, Jamelle Bouie, talks to Jesse Eisinger, a Senior Reporter at ProPublica, about Donald Trump's economic team and specifically Steven Mnuchin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Slate's Chief Political Correspondent, Jamelle Bouie, talks to Jesse Eisinger, a Senior Reporter at ProPublica, about Donald Trump's economic team and specifically Steven Mnuchin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Whether it's reports that the Secret Service might rent office space from Trump Towers in Manhattan, or Donald Trump suing Washington, D.C. to lower taxes on his new hotel, the president-elect has a great deal of business conflicts to resolve before entering the White House. But if Trump doesn't keep his promise to sever all business ties, he risks setting an ethically ambiguous tone for the rest of his administration. With that in mind, Money Talking host Charlie Herman discusses whose interests some of Trump's appointees will represent with Jesse Eisinger of ProPublica and Rick Newman of Yahoo Finance.

On this episode of Slate Money, hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O’Neil, author of Weapons of Math Destruction, and Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weisman are joined by ProPublica financial reporter Jesse Eisinger to discuss: - The practice of paying economists large sums to promote mergers - Facebook, Google and fake news - India's demonetization Come have a beer with us! Slate Money goes live for a special craft beer episode at 7 p.m. on Dec. 15 at Union Hall in Brooklyn. Tickets are $25. Go to slate.com/live for tickets and more information. Check out other Panoply podcasts at itunes.com/panoply. Email: slatemoney@slate.comTwitter: @felixsalmon, @mathbabedotorg, @JHWeissmann, @eisingerj Production by Zachary Dinerstein. -- Slate Money is brought to you by Boll and Branch. Get 50 dollars off your first set of sheets, plus free shipping, by going to BollandBranch.com and using promo code money. And by Trunk Club. Discover your perfect look with clothes sent right to your door from your very own personal stylist. Get started today at TrunkClub.com/money. And by Betterment, the largest independent automated investing service. Learn how you can get up to six months of NO FEES by going to Betterment.com/slatemoney. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode of Slate Money, hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O’Neil, author of Weapons of Math Destruction, and Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weisman are joined by ProPublica financial reporter Jesse Eisinger to discuss: - The practice of paying economists large sums to promote mergers - Facebook, Google and fake news - India's demonetization Come have a beer with us! Slate Money goes live for a special craft beer episode at 7 p.m. on Dec. 15 at Union Hall in Brooklyn. Tickets are $25. Go to slate.com/live for tickets and more information. Check out other Panoply podcasts at itunes.com/panoply. Email: slatemoney@slate.comTwitter: @felixsalmon, @mathbabedotorg, @JHWeissmann, @eisingerj Production by Zachary Dinerstein. -- Slate Money is brought to you by Boll and Branch. Get 50 dollars off your first set of sheets, plus free shipping, by going to BollandBranch.com and using promo code money. And by Trunk Club. Discover your perfect look with clothes sent right to your door from your very own personal stylist. Get started today at TrunkClub.com/money. And by Betterment, the largest independent automated investing service. Learn how you can get up to six months of NO FEES by going to Betterment.com/slatemoney. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices