Extortion: How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes, and Line Their Own Pockets

Schweizer, Peter

ISBN 10: 0544103343 / ISBN 13: 9780544103344

Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Extortion: How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes, and Line Their Own Pockets
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0544103343
• ISBN 13: 9780544103344
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: like_new

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Synopsis

A bombshell investigation reveals how Washington really works: politicians extort money from us, then use it to buy each other’s votes. Best-selling author Peter Schweizer reveals:

*Obama’s "Protection Money": How the Obama Administration targeted industries for criminal investigation but chose not to pursue key political donors.

*John Boehner’s "Tollbooth": How the Speaker of the House extracts money by soliciting political donations before he will hold crucial votes on the House floor.

*The "Slush Fund": How politicians extract "campaign contributions" and then convert them to bankroll lavish lifestyles complete with limos, private jets, golf at five-star resorts, fine wines, and cash for family members.

*Capitol Hill’s "Underground Economy": How congressmen use a little-known loophole that allows them to secretly link their votes to cash.

Extortion finally makes clear why Congress is so dysfunctional: it’s all about making money, not making law.

About the Author

PETER SCHWEIZER is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and he is the founder and director of the Government Accountability Institute. He has written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek/Daily Beast, and elsewhere. His books include Throw Them All Out, which exposed congressional insider stock trading and led to the passage of the STOCK Act.