Financial Exposure Carl Levin's Senate Investigations into Finance and Tax Abuse /

• Main Author: Bean, Elise J. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Finance.; Finance, Public.; Finance-History.; Public policy.; United States-Politics and government.; Popular Science in Finance.; Public Finance.; Financial History.; Public Policy.; US Politics.

At a time when Congressional investigations have taken on added importance and urgency in American politics, this book offers readers a rare, insider's portrait of the world of US Congressional oversight. It examines specific oversight investigations into multiple financial and offshore tax sca...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Entering the Oversight World
• 2. Landing at PSI
• 3. Combatting Money Laundering: Round One
• 4. Taking on Enron and its Bankers
• 5. Stopping Abusive Tax Shelters
• 6. Battling Tax Haven Banks
• 7. Crossing Party Lines
• 8. Halting Unfair Credit Card Practices
• 9. Deconstructing the Financial Crisis
• 10. Combatting Money Laundering: Round Two
• 11. Exposing Corporate Tax Dodgers
• 12. Beaching the London Whale
• 13. Targeting Commodity Speculation
• 14. Pursuing Oversight. .