(spoiler alert) in the movie, both ADM and the movie's subject are criminals.
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Eugene Coyle <[email protected]> wrote: > The movie "The Informant" is getting good play in the media -- as a comedy. > Starring Matt Damon. I have not seen the film. > The crimes involved are those of ADM, its officers and its price-fixing > conspirators. > This has been discussed on Pen-L in the past but because of the success of > the movie I want to flag it. NPR today had a long program on the case but I > only caught enough of it to arouse my ire. > The book on which the movie of the same name, "The Informant," is based > turned the story of the crimes on its head and made the actual informer the > subject, instead of the crimnals, notably ADM and its executives. In so > doing, the author Kurt Eichenwald was able to whitewash the US Department of > Justice, big Washington lawyers, and the FBI. I wasn't surprised, years > later, when the same author tried in another book to whitewash Ken Lay of > Enron. Ken Lay was already too far gone when that book came out. > Eichenwald was a reporter for the NY Times business section at the time of > the ADM & the later Enron scandals. Eichenwald had his own scandal later > and is no longer with the NY Times. > There is another book, a much better book, on the multiple crimes involved, > titled Rats In The Grain by James B. Lieber. Jaded as I am, there are > things in the Lieber book that still shocked me. > Gene Coyle > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
