The informant: a true story
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Publisher:
Broadway Books
Pub. Date:
[2000]
Edition:
1st ed
Language:
English
Description
From an award-winning New York Times investigative reporter comes an outrageous story of greed, corruption, and conspiracy—which left the FBI and Justice Department counting on the cooperation of one man . . . It was one of the FBI's biggest secrets: a senior executive with America's most politically powerful corporation, Archer Daniels Midland, had become a confidential government witness, secretly recording a vast criminal conspiracy spanning five continents. Mark Whitacre, the promising golden boy of ADM, had put his career and family at risk to wear a wire and deceive his friends and colleagues. Using Whitacre and a small team of agents to tap into the secrets at ADM, the FBI discovered the company's scheme to steal millions of dollars from its own customers. But as the FBI and federal prosecutors closed in on ADM, using stakeouts, wiretaps, and secret recordings of illegal meetings around the world, they suddenly found that everything was not all that it appeared. At the same time Whitacre was cooperating with the Feds while playing the role of loyal company man, he had his own agenda he kept hidden from everyone around him—his wife, his lawyer, even the FBI agents who had come to trust him with the case they had put their careers on the line for. Whitacre became sucked into his own world of James Bond antics, imperiling the criminal case and creating a web of deceit that left the FBI and prosecutors uncertain where the lies stopped and the truth began. In this gripping account unfolds one of the most captivating and bizarre tales in the history of the FBI and corporate America. Meticulously researched and richly told by New York Times senior writer Kurt Eichenwald, The Informant re-creates the drama of the story, beginning with the secret recordings, stakeouts, and interviews with suspects and witnesses to the power struggles within ADM and its board—including the high-profile chairman Dwayne Andreas, F. Ross Johnson, and Brian Mulroney—to the big-gun Washington lawyers hired by ADM and on up through the ranks of the Justice Department to FBI Director Louis Freeh and Attorney General Janet Reno. A page-turning real-life thriller that features deadpan FBI agents, crooked executives, idealistic lawyers, and shady witnesses with an addiction to intrigue, The Informant tells an important and compelling story of power and betrayal in America.
Subjects
Subjects
Archer Daniels Midland Company -- Corrupt practices
Archer Daniels Midland Company -- Pratiques déloyales
Business
Case studies
Commercial crimes
Commercial crimes -- United States -- Case studies
Corrupt practices
Electronic books
Indicateurs
Indicateurs -- États-Unis -- Cas, Études de
Informers
Informers -- United States -- Case studies
Infractions économiques
Infractions économiques -- États-Unis -- Cas, Études de
Nonfiction
Pratiques déloyales
True Crime
United States. -- Federal Bureau of Investigation
États-Unis. -- Federal Bureau of Investigation
Archer Daniels Midland Company -- Pratiques déloyales
Business
Case studies
Commercial crimes
Commercial crimes -- United States -- Case studies
Corrupt practices
Electronic books
Indicateurs
Indicateurs -- États-Unis -- Cas, Études de
Informers
Informers -- United States -- Case studies
Infractions économiques
Infractions économiques -- États-Unis -- Cas, Études de
Nonfiction
Pratiques déloyales
True Crime
United States. -- Federal Bureau of Investigation
États-Unis. -- Federal Bureau of Investigation
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From an award-winning New York Times investigative reporter comes an outrageous story of greed, corruption, and conspiracy—which left the FBI and Justice Department counting on the cooperation of one man . . . It was one of the FBI's biggest secrets: a senior executive with America's most politically powerful corporation, Archer Daniels Midland, had become a confidential government witness, secretly recording a vast criminal conspiracy spanning five continents. Mark Whitacre, the promising golden boy of ADM, had put his career and family at risk to wear a wire and deceive his friends and colleagues. Using Whitacre and a small team of agents to tap into the secrets at ADM, the FBI discovered the company's scheme to steal millions of dollars from its own customers. But as the FBI and federal prosecutors closed in on ADM, using stakeouts, wiretaps, and secret recordings of illegal meetings around the world, they suddenly found that everything was not all that it appeared. At the same time Whitacre was cooperating with the Feds while playing the role of loyal company man, he had his own agenda he kept hidden from everyone around him—his wife, his lawyer, even the FBI agents who had come to trust him with the case they had put their careers on the line for. Whitacre became sucked into his own world of James Bond antics, imperiling the criminal case and creating a web of deceit that left the FBI and prosecutors uncertain where the lies stopped and the truth began. In this gripping account unfolds one of the most captivating and bizarre tales in the history of the FBI and corporate America. Meticulously researched and richly told by New York Times senior writer Kurt Eichenwald, The Informant re-creates the drama of the story, beginning with the secret recordings, stakeouts, and interviews with suspects and witnesses to the power struggles within ADM and its board—including the high-profile chairman Dwayne Andreas, F. Ross Johnson, and Brian Mulroney—to the big-gun Washington lawyers hired by ADM and on up through the ranks of the Justice Department to FBI Director Louis Freeh and Attorney General Janet Reno. A page-turning real-life thriller that features deadpan FBI agents, crooked executives, idealistic lawyers, and shady witnesses with an addiction to intrigue, The Informant tells an important and compelling story of power and betrayal in America.
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Electronic books
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True Crime
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Archer Daniels Midland Company -- Pratiques déloyales
Business
Case studies
Commercial crimes -- United States -- Case studies
Electronic books
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Informers -- United States -- Case studies
Infractions économiques -- États-Unis -- Cas, Études de
Nonfiction
True Crime
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États-Unis. -- Federal Bureau of Investigation
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Corrupt practices
Indicateurs
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Infractions économiques
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