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From an award-winning New York Times investigative reporter comes a gripping bill of one of the very most fascinating and bizarre tales in the annals of the FBI and corporate and business America.
It was one of the FBI's biggest secrets: Draw Whitacre, a older exec at Archer Daniels Midland--America's most politically powerful corporation--became a confidential government witness. Placing his profession and family at risk, Whitacre, along with a small team of providers, tapped into secrets at ADM that led the FBI to discover the company's structure to steal millions of dollars from its customers.
But as the FBI and federal prosecutors closed down in on ADM, they out of the blue discovered that everything was not all of that it made an appearance. While Whitacre was cooperating with the Feds and participating in the role of devoted company man, he also got his own plan. Whitacre became sucked into his own world of James Connection antics, imperiling the legal case and building a web of deceit that remaining the FBI and prosecutors uncertain where in fact the lies stopped and the truth began.
Meticulously investigated and richly informed, The Informant re-creates the theatre of the storyline, beginning with the trick recordings, stakeouts, and interviews with suspects and witnesses to the energy challenges within ADM and its own board--including the high-profile chairman Dwayne Andreas, F. Ross Johnson, and Brian Mulroney--to the big-gun Washington lawyers hired by ADM, and on up through the rates of the Justice Section to FBI Director Louis Freeh and Lawyer General Janet Reno.
A page-turning real-life thriller that features deadpan FBI providers, crooked professionals, idealistic law firms, and shady witnesses with an craving to intrigue, The Informant tells an important and compelling story of electric power and betrayal in the us
