-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.fourwallseightwindows.com/booklieber1.html Click Here: <A HREF="http://www.fourwallseightwindows.com/booklieber1.html";> Four Walls Eight Windows Featured Book: RATS IN…</A> ----- ames B. Lieber Rats in the Grain The Dirty Tricks and Trials of Archer Daniels Midland The "Supermarket to the World" Agribusiness titans stealing money from their own customers—farmers, grain brokers, smaller manufacturers. High-level executives with ties to international businesses and governments joking about the client as the enemy, as they globally fix prices and violate both the spirit and the letter of antitrust laws. This was a day in the life of Archer Daniels Midland, the self-appointed "Supermarket to the World." Rats in the Grain exposes the everyday skulduggery that became the subject of a massive FBI investigation, complete with wiretaps, hidden cameras, and a volatile corporate informant. ADM had a checkered past full of scandal and conspiracy charges, but it enjoyed the protection of powerful politicians from both parties thanks to the charming and canny chairman Dwayne Andreas. From unscrupulous Cold War grain deals to Watergate pay-off money, nothing seemed to stick to the Midwestern power broker. But in the summer of 1995, that luck changed. After an intense undercover operation, the FBI pounced. In a highly coordinated raid, agents swept through offices and homes of the key executives, including the Andreas scion and golden boy Michael, Terry Wilson, vice president, and the mole himself, Mark Whitacre. Hours of tapes had been made by Whitacre of these principals colluding with their competitors from Japan, Korea, and Europe. They'd been caught red-handed. These surveillance tapes were damning. In language more suited to a sop histicated crime syndicate than a Fortune 50 company and its top executives, the conspirators divided world markets, inflated prices, and carefully planned the cover-up. Rats in the Grain contains the stop-action photos from the FBI files to accompany the text and testimony. After countless delays, the federal case came to trial in Chicago in the summer of 1998. Like a legal thriller, Rats in the Grain profiles the witnesses and their testimony, the phalanx of ADM lawyers and the federal prosecutors, inner workings of the Departments of Justice and Antitrust, the judge, and the always unpredictable mole. Lieber developed a close relationship with Whitacre, visiting him in prison, and trying to understand what drove the super-achiever to turn on the hand that fed him. James B. Lieber uses both his investigative journalist skills and his experience as a practicing attorney and seasoned litigator. He deftly threads through the legalese and arcane court procedure, the cross examinations and the redirects, the negotiations and the surprises, to reveal the dark practices of ADM and its unblinking refusal to accept responsibility. In addition to the narrative, Lieber charts the story with a time line, appendices, and a thorough and comprehensive cast of characters. Rats in the Grain is an informed and accessible parsing of an extraordinarily complex legal case. Lieber brings to light a disturbing portrait of fraud, conspiracy, and corruption in America's heartland. James B. Lieber is the author of Friendly Takeover: How an Employee Buyout Saved a Steel Town (Viking, 1995). He has written articles on social and political issues for The Atlantic, The Nation, The New York Times Magazine, The Village Voice, The Saturday Evening Post, and Mother Jones, among others. He lives and practices law in Pittsburgh, PA. $26.00 | hardcover | black & white illustrations index | ISBN: 1-56858-142-4 Politics Order this featured book online at a discount from ------------------------------------------------------------------------ © 2001 Four Walls Eight Windows ---- Om K <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. 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