What about the FBI, separately the US Dept. of Justice, certain
attorneys and judges? Where they shown as criminals?
On Sep 27, 2009, at 10:15 AM, Jim Devine wrote:
(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
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