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Best-selling author James B. Stewart's newsbreaking analysis of our own era's most high-profile perjurers, revealing the alarming degree of this national epidemic. Our system of justice rests on a straightforward proposition: that witnesses will increase their hands and tell the reality. In Tangled Webs, James B. Stewart uncovers in vivid detail the consequences of the perjury epidemic that has swept our country, undermining the very groundwork of our courts.Numerous prosecutors, investigators, and participants speaking for the very first time, Tangled Webs goes behind the landscape of the tests of multimedia and homemaking business owner Martha Stewart; top White House political adviser Lewis "Scooter" Libby; home-run ruler Barry Bonds; and Wall Street money supervisor Bernard Madoff. The saga of Martha Stewart's conviction captured the nation, but as yet nobody has answered the most basic question: Why would Stewart risk jail, put her whole empire in danger, and lie regularly to government investigators to save a couple of hundred thousand us dollars in stock increases? Moreover, how exactly was the notoriously meticulous Stewart helped bring down? Drawing on the accounts of then-deputy attorney general James Comey and U.S. Lawyer Patrick Fitzgerald, Stewart sheds new light on the Libby analysis, making clear what lengths into the White House the Valerie Plame CIA scandal extended, and why Libby needed the fall. In SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, Giants home-run ruler Barry Bonds encounters trial scheduled to his testimony before a grand jury investigating the utilization of illegitimate steroids in sports. Bonds was warned explicitly that the only real crime he encountered was perjury. Stewart unlocks the storyline behind the mounting proof that he nonetheless lied under oath. Bernie Madoff's Ponzi structure is infamous, but less popular is how he eluded diagnosis for so long when confronted with repeated investigations. With the four he is the only person who has admitted to lying.The perjury outbreak is symptomatic of your broader breakdown of ethics in American life. It isn't just the judicial system that depends on an honor code: Academia, business, medicine, and administration all rely upon it. Tangled Webs explores the age-old tensions between greed and justice, self-interest and open public interest, loyalty and duty. At a time when Americans seem to be famished for moral leadership and quality, Tangled Webs reaffirms the value of truth.
