Simpson, Glenn R.

Summary: Fusion GPS was founded in 2010 by Simpson and Fritsch, two former reporters at The Wall Street Journal, decided to use their reporting skills to conduct open-source investigations for businesses and law firms-- and opposition research for political candidates. In the fall of 2015 they were hired to look into the finances of Donald Trump. The deeper Fusion dug, the clearer it became that the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 SIM

Rhodes, Benjamin

Summary: "In 2017, as Ben Rhodes was helping former president Barack Obama begin his next chapter, the legacy they worked to build for eight years was being taken apart. To understand what was happening in his own country, Rhodes decided to look outward, at the wider world. Over the next three years, he traveled to dozens of countries, meeting with politicians, dissidents, and activists confronting the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909.83 RHO

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Wise, Leo J.

Summary: "In 2015 and 2016, Baltimore was reeling after the death of Freddie Gray in police custody and the protests that followed. In the midst of this unrest, a violent, highly trained, and heavily armed criminal gang roamed the city. They robbed people, sold drugs and guns, and divided the loot and profit among themselves. They had been doing it for years. But these were not ordinary career...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Johns Hopkins University Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1 WIS

Cruz, Ted

Summary: "The left has corrupted the U.S. legal system. Wielding the law as a weapon, arrogant judges and lawless prosecutors are intimidating, silencing, and even imprisoning Americans who stand in the way of their radical agenda. Their "enemies list" even includes parents who dare to speak up for their children at school board meetings. In this shocking new book, Senator Ted Cruz takes readers inside...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Publishing 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 349.73 CRU

Bongino, Dan

Summary: Using FBI documents, Bongino unspools a complex sequence of corruption behind desperate multimillion-dollar plans to stop Trump's re-election. He reveals the outrageous actions of Robert Mueller's investigators, delves into the disturbing presence of Obama's fixer, and shows that the case against Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn was stoked by a Flynn-fixated paid operative. In the final chapter, Bongino...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Post Hill Press 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 BON

Chayes, Sarah

Summary: A former advisor to the Joint Chiefs of Staff explains the common role of corruption in today's international uprisings, tracing corruption since the 1990s while arguing that corrupt governments have been largely responsible for extreme acts of rebellion.

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2015

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Contents: Introduction: new confessions and revelations from the world of economic hit men / John Perkins -- Global empire: the web of control / Steven Hiatt -- Selling money-- and dependency: setting the debt trap / S.C. Gwynne -- Dirty money: inside the secret world of offshore banking / John Christensen -- BCCI's double game: banking on America, banking on jihad / Lucy Komisar -- The human cost of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Berrett-Koehler Publishers 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1323 GAM

Summary: Dedicated insurance investigator Nate Ford becomes disillusioned with his job when the company he works for refuses a claim that allows his 8-year-old son to die. Assembling a team of con artists, professional thieves, and computer hackers, Nate turns his attention to aiding those who have been wronged by corrupt corporations, by stealing their money back for them.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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Browder, Bill

Summary: "When Bill Browder's young Russian lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, was beaten to death in a Moscow jail, Browder made it his life's mission to go after his killers and make sure they faced justice. The first step of that mission was to uncover who was behind the $230 million tax refund scheme that Magnitsky was killed over. As Browder and his team tracked the money as it flowed out of Russia through...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022

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Chayes, Sarah

Summary: A former advisor to the Joint Chiefs of Staff explains the role played by acute government corruption in fostering violent extremism.--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015

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Corcoran, Katherine

Summary: "Regina Martínez was no stranger to retaliation. A journalist out of Mexico's Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, Regina's stories for the magazine Proceso laid out the corruption and abuse underlying Mexican politics. She was barred from press conferences, and copies of Proceso often disappeared before they made the newsstands. In 2012, shortly after Proceso published an article on corruption and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 COR

Mueller, Tom

Summary: The author forces readers to confront fundamental questions about the balance between free speech and state secrecy, and between individual rights and corporate power as he traces the rise of whistleblowing through a series of riveting cases.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.16 MUE

Rohde, David W.

Summary: A two- time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's eye-opening investigation of the so-called deep state. A recent poll found that 74 percent of Americans believe that a group of unelected government and military officials is secretly manipulating or directing national policy. But does an American deep state really exist? This sweeping exploration of the intelligence community and FBI scandals of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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Smith, Lee

Summary: "Investigative journalist Lee Smith's The Plot Against the President tells the story of how Congressman Devin Nunes uncovered the operation to bring down the commander-in-chief. While popular opinion holds that Russia subverted democratic processes during the 2016 elections, the real damage was done not by Moscow or any other foreign actor. Rather, this was a slow-moving coup engineered by a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Street 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 SMI

Woodward, Bob

Summary: Woodward exposes one of the final pieces of the Richard Nixon puzzle, examining the untold story of Alexander Butterfield, the Nixon aide who disclosed the secret White House taping system that changed history and led to Nixon's resignation. In forty-six hours of interviews with Butterfield, supported by thousands of documents, many of them original and not in the presidential archives and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.924 WOO

Bryant, Howard

Summary: "Full Dissidence is a collection of essays focusing on the corporate assault on civil liberties, collisions of race and identity, and the kleptocracy of the Trump White House has forced America to ask itself if its beliefs of freedom and democracy are more than just words"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.2 BRY

Egan, Timothy.

Summary: Breaking Blue is what Sheriff Tony Bamonte did when he disregarded the blue code that forbids investigating a fellow police officer. While preparing his master's thesis, Bamonte discovered new evidence linking a local officer to the 1935 murder of town marshal George Conniff. This is a gripping story of cop against cop and a collision between two generations of lawmen.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1992

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Florio, John

Summary: "Marked Man tells the propulsive story of Frank Serpico who, in the 1960s, single-handedly rooted out systematic corruption in the New York Police Department. Since the NYPD was formed in 1845, the famous "pad" was as much a criminal ring as it was a legitimate police force. As the decades wore on, corruption became so out of hand that cops were regularly demanding payments from brothels, bars,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2024

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 363.2 FLO