CONTENTS

PROLOGUE

1: The Accidental Senator

2: Hunting for Financial Fraud

3: “Please Stay Involved in Politics”

4: Where are the Cases?

5: Lehman and WaMu

6: What Had Gone Wrong?

7: Wall Street Vetoes the President

8: Inside the Influence Industry

9: Capital of Hypocrisy

10: The Blob

11: The Rise of the Machines

12: The Flash Crash

13: Waterloo

14: Battling the Megabanks

15: Still Too Big to Fail

CONCLUSION

EPILOGUE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR