Recommended Reading: Kings of Tort

The book gives a fascinating look at the strategy and tactics employed by Dawson, his colleagues at the U.S. Attorney's Office, and the FBI. Dawson had to keep the entire investigation secret in a very small legal community where everybody's business is typically well known. Good luck, good planning, and tough professionalism kept the undercover operation running smoothly, while co-conspirators were confronted and turned one by one. Make no mistake about it, this is an account written from the federal government's perspective. Yet it offers a unique contemporary glimpse into how a federal public corruption case is built. The subtitle is somewhat misleading, as there is far more about the Scruggs case than the Minor case in the book. I recommend it highly.



White Collar Crime Prof Blog
8/25/10