Title: The Cons are Running the Prison
Review: I had never heard of Al Franken before I picked this book up on a whim while waiting for a flight to Tokyo. The language is a bit strong, but the work is excellent and thorough.I read it back to back with Paul Krugman'sThe Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century (Updated and Expanded). The two read like chapters of the same book, The Enron Presidency.Economists and forensic accountants will make careers over the next few decades unraveling the fraud Franken describes. The brilliance of using the government itself to run a trillion dollar sting is breath-taking. Having been in the fraud detection business myself, I was deeply impressed by Team Franken's work.
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