Description 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.
Bean included inquiries Into the 2008 Financial crisis, HSBC money laundering problems, the London whale trades at JPMorgan Chase, the collapse of Enron, an.
Investigations headed by Ms.
Bean handled a variety of complex Investigations including matters involving money laundering, tax abuse, corruption, unfair credit card practices, health care fraud, abuses involving derivatives and structured finance, commodity speculation, and shell companies with hidden owners.
During her tenure with Senator Levin, Ms.
She then helped establish in his honor the Levin Center at Wayne Law in Detroit.
Bean.
In early 2015, Senator Levin retired from the Senate, and so did Ms.
In 2003, Senator Levin appointed her his staff director and chief counsel on the Committee\'s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.
About the author For nearly 30 years beginning in 1985, Elise Bean worked as legal counsel to Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) on the US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
Grounded in fact, and written as only an insider could tell it, this book will be of interest to Financial and tax practitioners, policymakers, academics, students, and the general public.
Despite mounting levels of partisanship, dysfunction, and cynicism swirling through Congress during those years, this book describes how Congressional oversight Investigations can be a powerful tool for uncovering facts, building bipartisan consensus, and fostering change, offering detailed case histories as proof.
It examines specific oversight Investigations Into multiple Financial and offshore tax scandals over fifteen years, from 1999 to 2014, when Senator Levin served in a leadership role on the US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI), the Senate\'s premier investigative body.
Description 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
